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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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