Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 15:54:39 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - Shell Script Question Message-ID: <38A0828F.6E5E703C@ds.net> References: <001101bf7273$e44dc250$070101c0@ruraltel.net>
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Darryl Hoar wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> 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"}'
>
> but it does not 'execute' the mv command. How do I get this cooking ?
>
And it's not going to execute the 'mv' command - no matter how hard you
try. :)
Instead, try something like this:
for i in `ls -t`; do
mv $i /home/darryl/test
fi
There are other ways to do this too - but I thought it might be useful
to see how a simple loop works in 'sh'
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