Move files from one directory to another based on file names in csv using macOS Terminal

Question

I am trying to move thousands of files from one directory to another based on the file names that are in a CSV document (one column with just the names).

CSV:

filename1
filename2
filename3

Folder

filenameA
filename1
filename2
filename3
filenameZ

NewFolder (after the operation is complete)

filename1
filename2
filename3

I am trying to do it this way:

cat /Users/xxxxx/files.csv | xargs -I {} find /Users/xxxxx/Documents/Folder/ -type f -name "{}*" -exec cp {} /Users/xxxxx/Documents/NewFolder/ \;

But it only searches for the last name listed in the csv and ignores all the other names.

Answer 1

In your terminal window, you can use this command to move files listed in CSV from Folder to NewFolder:

for file in $(cat CSV); do mv Folder/$file NewFolder; done