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# 8  
Old 05-24-2012
What problem? You said it worked.

If noglob was really on, it couldn't have worked.
# 9  
Old 05-24-2012
It worked after I changed the target path from a regex to a simple wildcard. It did not work when I first copy/pasted your line.
# 10  
Old 05-25-2012
Regexes don't work there, period. If you want it to expand inside the shell itself instead of using grep, you have to use globs.
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# 11  
Old 05-26-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Regexes don't work there, period. If you want it to expand inside the shell itself instead of using grep, you have to use globs.
I'm going to have to read up on globbing because I'm not clear on exactly what that means. But I reset that noglob option, so I will be able to experiment. If I hadn't happened to check the bash version number, I would've been in for some frustration. I don't think I would've ever thought to check the shell options.
Slowly, but surely...
# 12  
Old 05-29-2012
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Originally Posted by sudon't
I'm going to have to read up on globbing because I'm not clear on exactly what that means.
A glob is like a regular expression, but simplified. A glob has no range specifiers, i.e. A* does not mean "zero or more A's", it means "A followed by zero or more characters".

It has the following special characters and syntax:
  • *: Zero or more of any character.
  • ?: Any single character.
  • [a-z]: regex-like character ranges.

Another thing is, globs must match the entire filename. regexes match as long as they're found somewhere inside the string.
# 13  
Old 05-31-2012
Your original code paste shows

Code:
xargs -J % mv % ....

Shouldn't it be -I instead of -J in there?
 
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