Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:20:45 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: John <papalia@udel.edu> Cc: darryl@osborne-ind.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - Shell Script Question Message-ID: <20000209182045.B82869@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000208154025.009f3bb0@mail.udel.edu>; from papalia@udel.edu on Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 03:42:31PM -0500 References: <001101bf7273$e44dc250$070101c0@ruraltel.net> <4.1.20000208154025.009f3bb0@mail.udel.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 03:42:31PM -0500, John wrote:
> >I have a directory with a ton of files in it. I need to move some of
> >them to another
> >directory. Here's what I'm thinking:
> >
> >ls -tl | grep '1999' | awk '{print "mv " $9 " /home/darryl/test"}'
>
> I'm thinking that there has to be some way to do this with find maybe? I
> just reviewed the man pages and didn't find the option I was looking for,
> but maybe some modification on the line:
>
> find . -newer "your.oldest.1999.file.here" -ok mv {} /home/darryl/test \;
>
> Gotta be a better way, but I thought I'd throw that up as food for thought?
Actually, this is a pretty nice thing. I really liked the -ok use
instead of the usual -exec :)
If you're sure that the files are all those that match '*1999*' though,
you could easily get away with:
% find . -type f -name '*1999*' -exec mv '{}' /home/darryl/test \;
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