如何使用find和xargs将文件从一个文件夹中的一个文件夹移动到另一个文件夹？

Question

I am trying to move files within the filecontainer folder into the example1 folder.

The directory structure is:

/example1

/example2/filecontainer

example1 has nothing in it.

example2 has a folder named filecontainer and three files in it called example1.sh, example2.sh and example3.sh

I tried the command below but none of the files were moved.

find ./ -name "example*.sh" | xargs -I% mv % example1

Essentially I want to move files within a subfolder to another folder. I am able to move files from a folder to another but when it the folder is a subfolder, it does not work.

I have to use the find and xargs since I will later on filter files from today up to a year and only move those files from a sub folder to a folder.

Answer 1

you don't need find or xargs at all? Your shell will happily do things for you:

mv -t /example1 /example2/filecontainer/example.*

if you indeed got a more complicated scheme where you actually need find, you can do a number of things; among these

• Use find 's -exec option
• use find [location] [-options, such as -name] -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t {target directory} find [location] [-options, such as -name] -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t {target directory} . Note that -print0 makes find separate the file names with a zero byte, which is great, because other delimiters like spaces or newlines are absolutely legal to have in file names; -0 makes xargs look for zero bytes instead of linebreaks

The problem with your code, by the way, is that you're using very strange quotation marks: your “ isn't " , and it makes a difference for your computer.