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Old 10-04-2012
Move files in a list to another directory

I have a number of files in a directory that can be grouped with something like "ls | grep SH2". I would like to move each file in this list to another directory.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 10-04-2012
Code:
 
 mv `ls | grep SH2` another_directory

# 3  
Old 10-04-2012
Code:
for i in $(ls | grep SH2)
do
mv $i /new_path/
done

# 4  
Old 10-04-2012
Equally bad:

Code:
$ ls -d *SH2* | xargs -I{} mv {} some_directory

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Old 10-04-2012
Thanks to all!
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