Musaul Karim <mus...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Is there a way around it to make mv do the "copy, remove" operation > iteratively per file, rather than as a single operation for all the > files?
Instead of something like mv file*ext /new/path You could do find . -maxdepth 1 -name "file*ext" -exec mv {} /new/path \; regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: r...@localhost postmas...@localhost