[Linux-disciples] Moving files

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:34:47AM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:
> I want to move all of the files on my computer that have exactly 4 letters and
> a .mp3 extension, to a single folder.   Is this possible.

Yes. You'll do something like this:

find . -iregex '^[[:alnum:]\{4\}\.mp3$' -depth mv '{}' [newfolder] \;

Run that from within the folder where you want to move
everything. [newfolder] is the folder to which you'll move
everything.

That's untested, but it's on the road to what you want to
see. See the man page for find(1) for details.

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