Using egrep and mv 1

[fabien]

Hi!

I would like to move files from one directory to another keeping dates, owner etc and based on a search pattern.

With the command below I can COPY files as I want:

cd $dir ; find . -print | egrep -v '$pat' | cpio -pdvmu $outdir
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What is the equivalent command to move the files and not copy?

Many thanks!

 

[columb]

try

find . -name "$pat" -exec mv {} $outdir \;

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[fabien]

Thanks a lot, however the pattern does not seem to work the same with -name of find.

For instance with egrep I have
$pat = "\\.tod|\\.tod_glb|\\.sgy|\\.segy|\\.gbs|\\.ash|\\.gsr|\\.psh|\\.shf|\\.psp|\\.tsp|\\.asp|\\.sess|\\.hts|\\.hzd|\\.2cl|\\.cdf|\\.cdf|\\.zgf|\\.asc|\\.ZGF|\\.dts|\\.mcf|\\.zcm|\\.ptf|\\.mf|\\.inp|\\.tmpcgm|\\.lst|\\.log|\\.w1|\\.hzbf|\\.w2|\\.w3|\\.core|\\.tmp|\\zap3workfile|\\tmpcgm|\\hzbf\\." as I want to exclude all files with those extensions.

 

[columb]

Hmmm I didn't look closely enough at your original problem

You could try

for file in `find . -print`
do
  case $file in
    *.tod|*.tod_glg) ;;
    *) mv $file outdir;;
  esac
done

I've only put in a couple of patterns but you get the idea.
I'm sure some of the gurus out there will provide a more elegant solution

Columb Healy
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[fabien]

thanks but there should be a way to do this in one line surely..

 

[KenCunningham]

Yep - put the above in a file and call it a script!

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
cd $dir ; find . -print | egrep -v '$pat' | tee /tmp/$$ | cpio -pdvmu $outdir && rm -f $(</tmp/$$)

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[fabien]

Thanks PHV but I am getting an error:can't read "(</tmp/$$)": no such variable

What's /tmp/$$ for?

 

[PHV]

Maybe something like this ?
cd $dir ; find . -type f -print | egrep -v "$pat" | tee /tmp/$$ | cpio -pdvmu $outdir && rm -f `cat /tmp/$$`

Hope This Helps, PH.
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