移动不包含特定字符串的文件

Question

I would like to move files using mv that do not contain the letter S in the filename. Could not find anyhting in the mv manual. Maybe combination with find or grep ? It has to be case-sensitive.

input:

  file1
  fileS1
  file2
  fileS2

file to move:

  file1
  file2

Answer 1

You can do the selection in pure Bash without any extra software, if you enable extended globbing , which is off by default:

shopt -s extglob
mv !(*S*) /target/dir

For more information, search for extglob in the bash(1) manual page (the info is at the second match).

Answer 2

You can use find with the -not flag for example.

find /path/to/source/dir -type f -not -name '*S*' \
    | xargs mv -t /path/to/target/dir

Answer 3

您还可以使用ls的Ignore-pattern开关，例如：

mv $(ls -I '*S*') /target/dir

Answer 4

GREP 's -v flag can also be used here. According to the docs,

-v, --invert-match Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines.

Just use

ls | grep -v '*S*' | xargs mv -t target_dir/

Also, see this post.