Hello, I am trying to find the best way to search through several thousand files and move some to a different directory. The files are all prefixed with LB. Like, LBX99.DAT141683.
These are data transactions and contain one line. The lines i am trying to search for all begin with 1~TA~ (standing for timeand attendance labor transactions) I've tried #!/usr/bin/sh for x in `find /dir -type f -exec grep '1~TA' [] \;` do mv $x /newdir done ---------------------------- There seems to be something i am missing like some output redirection or an ls listing... probably alot more. I know this can be done in a one liner somehow but I need it to be executed from cron. Thanks for any assistance. Matt _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"