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

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From: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:32:52 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:200610311419.k9VEJaKf009817
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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
> 
Seeing PWS's reply reminded me of the conventional way to do this

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


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