[olug] Unix Tip: MOVING FILES AROUND

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			Unix Tip 2175 - December 15, 2002

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MOVING FILES AROUND

Here is another way to move
files around.

Sometimes you find yourself 
wanting to move a bunch of 
files into a new directory 
that is to be created in the 
current working directory. 

Rather than using a temporary 
directory, or grep and variable
substitution; use a subshell:

$ ( \ls; echo dir; mkdir dir ) | xargs mv

The trick is in using a subshell 
to run a number of commands 
_before_ the output is piped to 
xargs. This idiom is also useful 
for plenty of other applications.




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