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Old 09-26-2004, 06:35 PM   #1
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Bash scripting


anyone know how I could do a find command like

find ~ -name 'iads' -print

and -exec a mv command

like i want to find every occurances of iads and move the files to another locations////sending standard errors to the trash

??
thanks
 
Old 09-26-2004, 07:26 PM   #2
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Code:
find ~ -name 'iads' -exec mv \{\} location \;
Note the space between 'location' and the escaped semicolon!
 
Old 09-26-2004, 07:28 PM   #3
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Oops, forgot to add "2>/dev/null" on the end to redirect stderr. Also, you can still use -print if you want to see the list of files as they're moved.
 
Old 09-28-2004, 01:34 AM   #4
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find ~ -name 'iads' -exec mv \{\} location \;

CroMagnon,

1. If you run this on the command prompt you don't need to escape {} right? You need to escape {} ONLY if you run this as a script yes?

2. Also, what would happen if you don't escape \? Why is it that you need \; for an -exec to work?

Thanks!

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Old 09-28-2004, 02:45 AM   #5
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Actually, I escaped {} out of habit. If it works on the command line, it will very likely work in a script. Perhaps it works because the {} is empty (if you don't know what { and } do in the shell, try this: echo {f,c,r}at ). In fact, that must be it, because I've used it unescaped with xargs. Thanks, you've taught me something

The important part is escaping the semicolon, because ; on it's own indicates to the shell that a command line is complete, and it is not passed to find. find requires a literal ; to tell it where the end of parameters for -exec are. It would also work if you put the semicolon in quotes, like ";".
 
Old 09-28-2004, 11:37 AM   #6
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Ahh, thank you very much for clearing that up!

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