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Old 09-17-2008
remove a 350 files in one shot
i have a dir called logs. In it i have some 350 files how to move all those files from directory logs to a new dir called archive

I want to do it in single shot

Below the command i m trying but not getting

find . -name "CurrentCollector*" -exec mv {} archive \;
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Old 09-17-2008
The command looks fine. How is it failing?
# 3  
Old 09-17-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by ali560045
find . -name "CurrentCollector*" -exec mv {} archive \;
For safety add the path to directory and the "file" type on your find command:
Code:
find /path/to/dir -type f -name "CurrentCollector*" -exec mv {} /path/to/archive \;

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