Bash Script to move Files

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:33 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 23:02 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > 
> > The name of the file that matches the contstraints you described to 
> > "find" is substituted for the {} after -exec.  Since mv expects the 
> > source before the destination, you'd need to use "mv {} /destination"
> 
> or use xargs -i

Actually, that's wrong. just use xargs.

$ find . -iname "*.tmp" -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs mv '{}' /location


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