如何从每行列出一个字符串的 txt 文件中移动标题内包含字符串的文件

Question

I need to move any file containing one of several strings in their titles from one directory to another. The strings are in one file named brh.txt and are on top of each others, one per line. Here is what I have tried:

for i in $(cat brh.txt); do find./hehert -type f -iname '*$i*' -exec mv -t /home/bort/misc/ {} \+; done

This runs for a while, but by the end of it, no new file appears in the target directory despite having loads of files that should match. Can anyone enlighten me?

Answer 1

Don't use single quotes '*$i*' for variable expansion, use double quotes "*$i*" . Also, it's better not to $(cat brh.txt) because if any filenames contained spaces they would be split. Instead, you can use mapfile

mapfile -t strings < brh.txt

And then use the strings array in a for loop

for i in "${strings[@]}"; do find ./hehert -type f -iname "*$i*" -exec mv -t /home/bort/misc/ {} \+; done

Or alternatively, just iterate through the lines in the file

while IFS= read -r string; do
    find ./hehert -type f -iname "*$string*" -exec mv -t /home/bort/misc/ {} \+
done < brh.txt