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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Any way to "alias" file patterns for use in a command? Post 302770878 by Apollo33 on Monday 18th of February 2013 08:33:24 PM
Old 02-18-2013
Question Any way to "alias" file patterns for use in a command?
First, I apologize for my 'noobness' with Linux and the shell. I'm running Ubuntu with zsh as my shell.

What I'd like to be able to do is clean up a messy Downloads folder by moving categories of files to different directories with something like:
Code:
mv dir/$vids dest
mv dir/$music dest
mv dir/$pics dest

where the variable would expand to a pattern for those types of files before execution.

I tried setting pics='*.(#i)(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)' but that didn't work. So is there any way to do something like this or do I have to write my own function? It just seems like a real pain to write a function for every instance where I'd like to manipulate certain types of files. Maybe I'd like to copy all pictures, or list only movies in a directory, or find all music, etc.
 

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