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/

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