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BASH mv *.nii all but 1999.nii ??

So Lets say I have this files in a folder:

123.nii
132.nii
343.nii
454.nii
666.nii
767.nii
.
.
.

I want to move all the one in *.nii to a different folder but 666.nii ?

mv ./*.nii /<OTHER LOCATION> but 666.nii?? How do I do it?

I'm sure there's a single command that could do this with ease, probably using some combination of find with "! -name", but whenever I need to do this I just go the simple route

Code:

mkdir temp

mv 666.nii temp

mv *.nii /some/other/dir

mv temp/* .

rmdir temp

Just takes a few seconds, and there's no complicated command to try to remember or get the syntax right.

for f in *.nii;do [ "${f}" != "666.nii" ] && mv ${f} <destination>;done

Proof of concept, using rm instead of mv:

Code:

$ for ((i=1;i<10;++i)) do touch ${i}${i}${i}.nii;done

$ ls *.nii

111.nii  222.nii  333.nii  444.nii  555.nii  666.nii  777.nii  888.nii  999.nii

$ for f in *.nii;do [ "${f}" != "666.nii" ] && rm ${f};done

$ ls *.nii

666.nii

$ rm 666.nii

Warning: The code above assumes that none of the .nii file names contain any character listed in ${IFS}. (e.g., blank, etc.)

<edit>
This should also work: find ./ -maxdepth 1 -name '*.nii" ! -name '666.nii' -exec mv '{}' <destination> ';' and, by removing the -maxdepth 1 directive, you could apply the logic to your current directory and all subdirectories of it.
</edit>

<edit2>
Another thought: If your directory only contains *.nii files, you could rename the directory (mv can do that), and then recreate the directory and move the file(s) you want back into it.
</edit>

Code:

shopt -s extglob

mv !(666).nii /target

More info: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/glob

Looking for the single command...but thanks for your suggestions :)
,

shopt -s extglob? What is that?

enabling extended globing support. shopt allows changing the default options. It happens to be a built in command to bash.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpollard (Post 5048269)

enabling extended globing support. shopt allows changing the default options. It happens to be a built in command to bash.

Exactly. Since how globbing works is dependent on the shell in use here an example for Zsh, which I personally find more intuitive:

Code:

setopt extendedglob

mv *.nii~666.nii /target