On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:33 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 23:02 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> >
> > The name of the file that matches the contstraints you described to
> > "find" is substituted for the {} after -exec. Since mv expects the
> > source before the destination, you'd need to use "mv {} /destination"
>
> or use xargs -i
Actually, that's wrong. just use xargs.
$ find . -iname "*.tmp" -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs mv '{}' /location
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