I have a group of files, all named "August x, 2010" where x is a numeral. I want to move them as a group into a directory. I know how to use mv to do it one at a time, but there's got to be a less labor-intensive way. I have searched the man and info pages for mv, looking for the phrase "multiple filenames", searched a hard-copy reference manual, looked on Ubuntu forums: nothing. I tried perl-like regular expressions but apparently mv does not accept .* as a wildcard. See below (note that "August, 2010", with no date, is the name of a directory):
>$ ls > >August, 2010 August 29, 2010 August 5, 2010.odt >August 25, 2010.odt August 30, 2010 >August 26, 2010.odt August 31, 2010 September, 2010 >August 27, 2010.odt August 4, 2010.odt > >$ mv August\ .*,\ 2010 August\,\ 2010/ > >mv: cannot stat `August .*, 2010': No such file or directory I googled "passing multiple file names to mv" and found a shell script that may solve a related problem (see http://aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_scotec1rename.html), but am still stuck. Hints? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
