查找名称与pattern匹配的目录并移动它们

Question

I have a bunch of directories like 001/ 002/ 003/ mixed in with others that have letters in their names. I just want to grab all the directories with numeric names and move them into another directory.

I try this:

file */ | grep ^[0-9]*/ | xargs -I{} mv {} newdir

The matching part works, but it ends up moving everything to the newdir ...

Answer 1

I am not sure I understood correctly but here is at least something to help.

Use a combination of find and xargs to manipulate lists of files.

find -maxdepth 1 -regex './[0-9]*' -print0 | xargs -0 -I'{}' mv "{}" "newdir/{}"

Using -print0 and -0 and quoting the replacement symbol {} make your script more robust. It will handle most situations where non-printable chars are presents. This basically says it passes the lines using a \\0 char delimiter instead of a \\n .

Answer 2

mv is not powerfull enough by itself. It cannot work on patterns.

Try this approach: Rename multiple files by replacing a particular pattern in the filenames using a shell script

Either use a loop or a rename command.

Answer 3

With loop and array,

Your script would be something like this:

#!/bin/bash
DIR=( $(file */ | grep ^[0-9]*/ | awk -F/ '{print $1}') ) 

for dir in "${DIR[@]}"; do
   mv $dir /path/to/DIRECTORY
done