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



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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