Simple bash script: move by file extension.

[sudodus]

`bash script' will run the script in a subshell where extglob is not enabled. You have to enable it in your script:

shopt -s extglob
commmand *+(whatever)

The `source' command or the dot (`.') command will run the commands from the script in the current shell.

Thank you

[sebastian.s]

Setting the shell options to extended fixed it the way i chose to do it, i found that method in the book i'm reading right now and i missed that i had to enable extglob.

If you want to use extended globs, you have to enable them:

shopt -s extglob

And of course using the standard globbings worked just fine aswell, thanks for the tip

why don't you use standard globs

mv *.jpg *.jpeg *.gif *.png ./pictures

or

mv *.{jpg,jpeg,gif,png} ./pictures