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Old 01-23-2012
[Solved] Selective moving of directories

Hi there,
I'm fairly new to Unix and have been getting my head round the command line for a FreeNAS install that I just did.
I need to move a whole bunch of directories from one location to another and need a bit of help!
I understand the basics of the 'mv' command but am not sure how to specify that it only moves certain directories.
I have around 200 directories currently in '/mnt/vm01/projects' and I want to move all that have the word 'Company' in the directory name (and all their contents) to a different directory '/mnt/vm01/another'.
Some directories have the word 'Company' in the title, and in others 'company', so I need the command to not match cases. Also, whilst I want to move the directories and all their contents, it's important I retain the directory structures. I mention this because some of the sub-directories and files have 'company' in their naming so the selection needs to apply just to the top-level directory (/mnt/vm01/projects). I hope I've made myself clear!
How do I specify this?
Thanks in advance...

Last edited by randomgooner; 01-24-2012 at 07:23 AM.. Reason: Question solved...
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Old 01-23-2012
If your system allows you to have a big enough commandline:

Code:
mv /path/to/*[cC]ompany* /path/to/destination/

If not:

Code:
ls /path/to | grep "[cC]ompany" | while read LINE
do
        mv "$LINE" /path/to/destination/
done

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Old 01-24-2012
Great, thanks. The first version worked a treat - saved me about a day of copying files over CIFS!
 
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