On January 14, 2005 01:19 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > I was using > > > > find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname *gentoo* > > > > and that didn't work. How come?? (it lists everything!) > > *gentoo* was being expanded by bash; I'm not sure why find didn't give you > an error.
you could probably use: $ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -name '*gentoo*' -print0 | \ xargs -0 --replace mv "{}" /path/to/new/dir/ -- without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony - lau tzu, "tao te ching: chapter xxxii" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list