Hello, this is my first forum and first post i need help with a script, i want to copy the latest 10 files from one holder to another. All the files start with the number 2 and this is what i have so far:

lt -lt 2* | head -10

So i want to copy that output of 10 files to another folder

Have a look at process substitution on your favourite bash page and you should be good

Grail i feel stupid for saying this but apart from know that bash is a type of shell i dont how to look at process substitution. I am really a newbie. Sorry

Process substitution allows you to create a list of arguments, from the output of another command or commands: $( command(s) )

mv $(ls -t | head -n 10) destination_dir/

If there may be spaces or some other special characters in the filenames, you will need to modify this. This is because spaces are used to separate arguments by bash.
One way of dealing with this is to convert new lines to nulls ( \0 ) to separate arguments, and use xargs.
ls -t | head -n 10 | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -t destination_dir/

The -0 (--null) option causes xargs to use NULLs to separate arguments, and ignore other characters.
the command "tr '\n' '\0'" converts newline characters to NULLs.

Thanks jschiwal, man you sound like you talking spanish, learning linux looks like it will be a daunting task. Thank you for your "mv" solution, the file names are just a list of numbers starting with 2 so i dont think it will give me problems. Thanks again.

Glad you have a solution. I like to give newbies the chance to look stuff up, but I went to bed after my post so didn't see your initial reply.
Also be aware that mv will move the files to the new location whereas cp will copy them, if you also need them left where they started.

Please mark as SOLVED if you have your final solution.