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Old 10-28-2014
How to count the number of files moved?
I'm writing a script for searching substring in file content and then moving found files. So far I've wrote script shown below

Code:
grep -lir 'stringtofind' $1 | xargs mv -t $2

How can i count number of files moved?
# 2  
Old 10-28-2014
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Originally Posted by Kadikis
I'm writing a script for searching substring in file content and then moving found files. So far I've wrote script shown below

Code:
grep -lir 'stringtofind' $1 | xargs mv -t $2

How can i count number of files moved?
Assuming one file per line:

Code:
grep -lir 'stringtofind' "$1" | awk '1 ; END { print NR >"/dev/stderr" }' | xargs mv -t "$2"

awk will print the number of lines it counted to standard error, direct to the screen, and print all lines to standard out, right back into mv.
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Old 10-28-2014
Works like a charm! Thanks!! Smilie)
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Old 10-28-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kadikis
I'm writing a script for searching substring in file content and then moving found files. So far I've wrote script shown below

Code:
grep -lir 'stringtofind' $1 | xargs mv -t $2

How can i count number of files moved?
mv has another good flag to report what just did, e.i -v

To see it in realtime
Code:
grep -lir 'stringtofind' "$1" | xargs mv -v -t $2

You can use that to just show count as well
Code:
grep -lir 'stringtofind' "$1" | xargs mv -v -t $2 2>/dev/null | wc -l

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Old 11-03-2014
thanks needed this Smilie
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