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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting arguments in bash Post 302582771 by radoulov on Sunday 18th of December 2011 06:21:41 AM
Old 12-18-2011
You may try something like this:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

From=/home/elg19/lone/doc
To=/home/elg19/documents

while getopts :d: opt; do
  case $opt in
    ( d ) To=$OPTARG                                                 ;;
    ( ? ) printf >&2 'usage: %s -d <dest_dir>\n' "${0##*/}"; exit 1  ;;
  esac
done

shopt -s nullglob

mv -- "$From"/*.{pdf,txt,doc} "$To/"

Note that there is no recursion in this case,
let me know if you really need to move the files
from the From directory an its subdirectories.

If the filenames exceed the ARG_MAX limit of your system, you will need xargs.
Last edited by radoulov; 12-18-2011 at 07:45 AM.. Reason: Simplified.
 

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plbin

PLBIN(3plplot)							    PLplot API							    PLBIN(3plplot)

NAME

       plbin - Plot a histogram from binned data

SYNOPSIS

       plbin(nbin, x, y, opt)

DESCRIPTION

       Plots  a  histogram consisting of nbin bins.  The value associated with the i'th bin is placed in x[i], and the number of points in the bin
       is placed in y[i].  For proper operation, the values in x[i] must form a strictly increasing sequence.  By default, x[i] is  the  left-hand
       edge  of  the  i'th  bin.  If opt=PL_BIN_CENTRED is used, the bin boundaries are placed midway between the values in the x array.  Also see
       plhist(3plplot) for drawing histograms from unbinned data.

       Redacted form:  General: plbin(x, y, opt) Perl/PDL: plbin(nbin, x, y, opt) Python: plbin(nbin, x, y, opt)

       This function is not used in any examples.

ARGUMENTS

       nbin (PLINT, input)
	      Number of bins (i.e., number of values in x and y arrays.)

       x (PLFLT *, input)
	      Pointer to array containing values associated with bins.	These must form a strictly increasing sequence.

       y (PLFLT *, input)
	      Pointer to array containing number of points in bin.  This is a PLFLT (instead of PLINT) array so as to allow histograms	of  proba-
	      bilities, etc.

       opt (PLINT, input)
	      Is a combination of several flags: opt=PL_BIN_DEFAULT: The x represent the lower bin boundaries, the outer bins are expanded to fill
	      up the entire x-axis and bins of zero height are simply drawn.  opt=PL_BIN_CENTRED|...: The bin boundaries are to be midway  between
	      the  x  values.  If  the values in x are equally spaced, the values are the center values of the bins.  opt=PL_BIN_NOEXPAND|...: The
	      outer bins are drawn with equal size as the ones inside.	opt=PL_BIN_NOEMPTY|...: Bins with zero height are not drawn  (there  is  a
	      gap for such bins).

AUTHORS

       Geoffrey  Furnish  and  Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot.  This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the
       PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO

       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.

								   August, 2012 						    PLBIN(3plplot)
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