2009/5/7 Guillaume CHARDIN <guillaume.chardin@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, maybe some scripting genius gonna help me :D > > I need to move some file from one directory to other with some exclusions. > Ex: move files from "/data/product/" to "/data/archives/2005" while > the "*.dat" file/dirs stay in the right place. > > $mv /data/product/* !(/data/product/*.dat) /data/archives/2005 find /data/product -maxdepth 1 -type f \! -path "*.dat" -exec mv \{\} /data/product/2005 \; Which translates as finding the following criteria of files: -maxdepth 1 : don't recurse into subdirectories e.g. not into /data/product/2005 -type f : find only files, not directories \! -path "*.dat" : filename/path should not end in .dat And then moving them to /data/product/2005 like this: $ ls -lR /data/product /data/product: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 sjs298 root 4096 2009-05-07 16:57 2005 -rw-r--r-- 1 sjs298 users 0 2009-05-07 16:57 adatfile.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 sjs298 users 0 2009-05-07 16:57 afile -rw-r--r-- 1 sjs298 users 0 2009-05-07 16:57 anotherfile /data/product/2005: total 0 $ find /data/product -maxdepth 1 -type f \! -path "*.dat" -exec mv \{\} /data/product/2005 \; $ ls -lR /data/product/data/product: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 sjs298 root 4096 2009-05-07 16:58 2005 -rw-r--r-- 1 sjs298 users 0 2009-05-07 16:57 adatfile.dat /data/product/2005: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 sjs298 users 0 2009-05-07 16:57 afile -rw-r--r-- 1 sjs298 users 0 2009-05-07 16:57 anotherfile -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines