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

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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@xxxxxxxx>
To: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:51:20 +0100
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On 10/31/06, zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:200610311419.k9VEJaKf009817
@news01.csr.com:

> 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
>
Seeing PWS's reply reminded me of the conventional way to do this

mv $(grep -il "userid" *.php) done


That doesn't work with files with spaces in them, though.

 nikolai

References:
- 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory
  - From: zzapper
- Re: 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory
  - From: Peter Stephenson
- Re: 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory
  - From: zzapper

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