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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Why doesn't this work? Post 302754999 by Corona688 on Friday 11th of January 2013 03:11:49 PM
Old 01-11-2013
find is not shell, it does not expand * inside commandlines. It does inside -name and -path arguments however.

\ is taken literally inside single quotes anyway, so probably won't do what you want it to do.

I don't think find can do everything you want all by itself, but it can at least find the names for you, and print them one-by-one. Shell can do the rest.

Code:
find ./ -path '*/05_scripts/*.aep Logs' | while read LINE
do
        echo mv "$LINE" $(basedir $LINE)/.Logfiles
done

Remove the 'echo' once you've tested and are sure it does what you want.

Last edited by Corona688; 01-11-2013 at 04:44 PM..
 

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NAME
shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables SYNOPSIS
shtool path [-s|--suppress] [-r|--reverse] [-d|--dirname] [-b|--basename] [-m|--magic] [-p|--path path] str [str ...] DESCRIPTION
This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments. It prints the absolute filesystem path to the program displayed on "stdout" plus an exit code of 0 if it was really found. OPTIONS
The following command line options are available. -s, --suppress Supress output. Useful to only test whether a program exists with the help of the return code. -r, --reverse Transform a forward path to a subdirectory into a reverse path. -d, --dirname Output the directory name of str. -b, --basename Output the base name of str. -m, --magic Enable advanced magic search for ""perl"" and ""cpp"". -p, --path path Search in path. Default is to search in $PATH. EXAMPLE
# shell script awk=`shtool path -p "${PATH}:." gawk nawk awk` perl=`shtool path -m perl` cpp=`shtool path -m cpp` revpath=`shtool path -r path/to/subdir` HISTORY
The GNU shtool path command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Apache. It was later taken over into GNU shtool. SEE ALSO
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