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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Xargs + Find Help Post 302558929 by modulartention on Monday 26th of September 2011 12:28:31 AM
Old 09-26-2011
Chubler thanks for this,BSD darwin, no win/linux...
the '--' command is illegal so tried replacing with suggestions... no dice ..
find /path/to/your/directory -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +5 -print0 | xargs -0 mv -v /path/to/new/directory/ (-v is supposed to give verbose show of files after moving)
whinges about the usage .. Its like xargs isnt piping the source directory path to mv and mv wants both source and target directory paths written for it ala : mv /source/directory/ /target/directory/
fsking thing.
 

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GIT-MV(1)							    Git Manual								 GIT-MV(1)

NAME
git-mv - Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink SYNOPSIS
git mv <options>... <args>... DESCRIPTION
This script is used to move or rename a file, directory or symlink. git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> <destination> git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> ... <destination directory> In the first form, it renames <source>, which must exist and be either a file, symlink or directory, to <destination>. In the second form, the last argument has to be an existing directory; the given sources will be moved into this directory. The index is updated after successful completion, but the change must still be committed. OPTIONS
-f, --force Force renaming or moving of a file even if the target exists -k Skip move or rename actions which would lead to an error condition. An error happens when a source is neither existing nor controlled by GIT, or when it would overwrite an existing file unless -f is given. -n, --dry-run Do nothing; only show what would happen -v, --verbose Report the names of files as they are moved. GIT
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