Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to accomplish follow

1- search $dir_find for \*.txt\*
2- exclude 2 directories $dir_find/abc/* and $dir_find/fit*
3- compress find result
4- move all compressed file to different directory

Here is what I have tried. How/where can I add mv?? Can I add to same line/command?

Code:

compress `$dir_find -name \*.txt\*|egrep -v "abc|fit*"`

Thanks in advance.

Moderator's Comments:

Use code tags, thanks. See PM.

There is much variation in the "find" command and compression utilities. For the benefit of people reading this post please post what Operating System and version you have and what Shell you are using.


Please clarify. Does the expansion of * in both of these conditions produce the name of a directory or does * refer to files within the parent directory?
A representative example always helps.

What's the name of the directory to contain the final files?
Is it safe to assume that all filenames in the $dir_find tree are unique?

Btw. Your initial code does not contain the command "find".