Bash script for moving files

[huangweiqiu]

I have a folder /var/www/img has lots of image files name by date.

I want to move all images with 201108 filename to /root/a

I tried this bash but without luck

$mv $(find . -name "201108") /root/a/;

Please could someone help?

[HermanAB]

mv *201108* /wherever/.

[mörgæs]

Moved to Programming Talk; title changed.

[ofnuts]

I have a folder /var/www/img has lots of image files name by date.

I want to move all images with 201108 filename to /root/a

I tried this bash but without luck

$mv $(find . -name "201108") /root/a/;

Please could someone help?

You can't use the output of find (which is multi-line) directly as command parameters. In the general case, when you have a multi-line list of things that you want to pass as multiple arguments to one single command, use "xargs". However, this is fraught with peril if you want to handle spaces in names etc... It's easier to ask find to execute a command on every file that matches:

find /var/www/img -name "201108" -exec mv {}  /root/a \+

(the difference between \+or \; in the '-exec' part is that ";" has the command execute once for each file, while "+" creates a siongle command with all the files (which works very often, given Unix conventions)

[huangweiqiu]

find /var/www/img -name "201108" -exec mv {}  /root/a \+

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I run this script but failed with error

find: missing argument to `-exec'

[codemaniac]

find /var/www/img -name "201108" -exec mv {}  /root/a \+

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I run this script but failed with error

find: missing argument to `-exec'

find /var/www/img -name "201108" -exec mv {}  /root/a/ \;

should work.

[huangweiqiu]

find /var/www/img -name "201108" -exec mv {}  /root/a/ \;

should work.

the new one has no error, however no file was transfered to /root/a .Please help to check gain. almost done.

[codemaniac]

the new one has no error, however no file was transfered to /root/a .Please help to check gain. almost done.

Please make sure the file name is exactly 201108.
Or if the filename contains 201108 as substring use *201108* .

find /var/www/img -name "*201108*" -exec mv {}  /root/a/ \;

[huangweiqiu]

Please make sure the file name is exactly 201108.
Or if the filename contains 201108 as substring use *201108* .

find /var/www/img -name "*201108*" -exec mv {}  /root/a/ \;

works like a charm,thanks a lot!

[mörgæs]

Good, please mark the thread 'solved'.