AIX

Greetings!

I have some files in a directory that need to be moved but there are certain files (all with a .LOG extension) that should not be moved. How can I instruct the MV command to move all files EXCEPT those with the .LOG extension?

Thanks!

Code:

find <sourceDIR> -type f ! -name '*.LOG' -exec echo mv {} <destDIR> \;

remove 'echo' when/if satisfied with the results.

Vgersh99:

That was fast! Thank you.

I think I hit the "Post" button to quickly, however. There's a little more to it.

My directory structure looks like this:

/usr/abc/sys/outb/fldrA
......................../fldrB
......................../fldrC
etc.

What I need to do is the following (pseudocode):

FOR EACH directory IN /usr/abc/sys/outb
DO
find <sourceDIR> -type f ! -name '*.LOG' -exec echo mv {} <destDIR1> \;
find <sourceDIR> -type f -name '*.LOG' -exec echo mv {} <destDIR2> \;
DONE

If I'm reading your statement right, the "!" operator is being used for negation. Basically, for each subdir in /OUTB I need to move any file that does not have the .LOG extension to DESTDIR1 and those with the .LOG extension to DESTDIR2. I don't know how to iterate over all those subdirs, though, and process each file therein.

Many thanks.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

for iter in /usr/abc/sys/outb/*
do
   find "${iter}" -type f ! -name '*.LOG' -exec echo mv {} <destDIR> \;
done

Excellent! Thanks!