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Hi, I have a series of files (upwards of 500) the filename format is as follows
CC10-1234P1999.WGS84.p190, all in one directory.
Now the last three numeric characters, in this case 999, can be anything from 001 to 999.
I need to move some of them to a seperate directory, the ones I need to move will be within a defined range, eg I would want to move everything from the file ending in 005 to the file ending in 155.
Any thoughts ?

Best guess would be to use find for this, and matching regex.

Something like :

Code:

find $FINDDIR -name 'CC10-1234P1[01][0-5][0-5].WGS84.p190' -type f | xargs cp -t $DESTDIR

For sure there are some more elegant way to do it but it should do the work

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
SOURCEDIR=...
DESTDIR=...
for i in $(seq 1 999 | xargs printf "%03d\n")
do
    f="CC10-1234P1$i.WGS84.p190"
    [[ -f "$SOURCEDIR/$f" ]] && cp -p $SOURCEDIR/$f $DESTDIR/$f
done

That one rung a few bells so with a little redesign I came up with (transferring 001-132 this time)

find ./ \( -name "*[0][0-9][0-9].WGS84.p190" -o -name "*[1][3][0-2].WGS84.p190" -o -name "*[1][0-2][0-9].WGS84.p190" \) -exec scp -v {} $DESTDIRp190/ \;


That works a treat, thanks guys, much appreciated

For a one shot move, the find is nice.

Now, if your range change frequently, i may become tedious to re-tweak the pattern matching with expression like those you used (and this also may lead to error or if some case of matching are forgotten).
The code i proposed is easier to adapt if the ranges are frequently changing.

Youre right ctsgnb, its a task I'll have to do quite often so I think something a litle easier to manipulate is required, I'll try using what you suggest or perhaps (if I can get my head working again...) a quick script where I can input the range I want and translate that to the find string. Thanks for the help though mate, much appreciated