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Re: 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:19:36 +0000
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zzapper wrote:
> I want to 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory.
> Should be trivial but cant think how w/o creating a temporary file

mv *(.e:'grep -q string $REPLY':) subdir

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