Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:36:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pipes and commands that require two arguments Message-ID: <20040408163658.GC26470@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <40757879.1010307@circlesquared.com> References: <40757879.1010307@circlesquared.com>
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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:06:17PM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote:
> I want to redirect the output of a command to mv(1) as the source file,=
=20
> and specify somehow a destination directory. Basically, I have to move=20
> several thousand files whose names match a number of patterns to a=20
> single directory.
>=20
> Any suggestions will be gratefully received.
There's several ways of doing this. Assuming you've got a command
"listfiles" which returns the list of files you want moved from the
current directory:
% mv `listfiles` /destination/directory/
If the number of files to move is larger than the maximum number of
command linearguments:
#!/bin/sh
for f in `listfiles` ; do
mv $f /destination/directory/
done
or you can use xargs(1):
listfiles | xargs -J % mv % /destination/directory/
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
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