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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Moving files with specific names Post 302868445 by alister on Sunday 27th of October 2013 07:26:34 PM
Old 10-27-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by a_bahreini
I'd like to have a unix code to find all the files which have any of above strings in their name and move them to a specific directory. I have my files distributed in many subdirectories so it has to search them all.
Have you made any attempt to solve the problem yourself? If so, show us your code. If not, did you at least search the forum? This has been answered before.



Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Code:
xargs -I% find /source -name "*%*" -exec mv {} /destination \; < list.txt

Quote:
Originally Posted by targzeta
Code:
cat list.txt | while read pattern; do find sourcedir -name "*$pattern*" -exec mv '{}' destdir/ \;;done

There is no need to traverse the filesystem hierarchy more than once, much less once per pattern. A much more efficient approach runs find only once, piping its output into grep. Whatever survives is moved.

The OP did not address basename collisions. If they're a possibility, then clobbering needs to be addressed.

Regards,
Alister
 

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zgrep

ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep  options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

                                                                                                                                          ZGREP(1)
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