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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
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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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