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Hi,

I have a script that can only handLE limited number of input files.

I need to be able to write a command (or a script) that:

1> copies N number of files from one directory (A) to another (B).
2> Files that are moved need to be renamed.
3> Files picked to be moved have same prefix.

For example, if N=2

Before

Dir A Dir B
-----------------
F1
F2
F3
F4
X

After 1 execution

Dir A Dir B
------------------
F3 F1
F4 F2
X

After 2nd execution

Dir A Dir B
-----------------
X F1
F2
F3
F4

I am using HP unix

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks.

GMMIKE

You can try like this

ls | head -2 | xargs -I {} -t mv ./{} ./tmp/{}