UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

thanks doeboy and jimbo. I could do the same.
it works.

well.. now something else irks me.. that is I need some more plain files to be moved somewhere else but If I use find.. it will go into folders. i do not want that.

for example..
i have in my home 4 files and 2 folders.
i want only the 4 files to be shifted to one of the folders. Please inform me if I am missing any basic.

You could try using the "-type f" for your find command, or use "-prune" to tell it not to traverse a directory.

find . -type f -print

I used -prune but I found no difference.. can it be a little more?

I think you have to use -prune in conjunction with other parameters for find. Check out the find(1) man page for some more explanation.

thanks, but I could not make much out of it.
for time being i have used the old dumb method

cp * temp
rm *


but still I wish to know how to use the options in find.
thanks again

Try this for your find command:

find * -prune -a -type f -print