Ow Mun Heng ha scritto:

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:48:15 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it
| into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding.
| (I'm too stubborn to want to do it the cut and paste way in nautilus"

Assuming by "folder" you mean "directory":


Yes




find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname '*gentoo*' -exec mv "{}" Gentoo/ \;


That worked Great. I was using

find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname *gentoo*


^^^^^^^^
Bash expand *gentoo* to all the files in your current dir, "*gentoo*" instead is passed as is to find


and that didn't work. How come?? (it lists everything!)






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