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Bhabani Shankar
Bhabani Shankar

Reputation: 1285

Unix Move files without matching a pattern

I have a query on unix move for files not matching pattern. Example below:

Directory listing

 20150325
 20150326
 20150327
 20150328
 archieve

Now, I want to move all the files not matching 20150328 into archieve directory with a single command. Please help......

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1944

Answers (2)

rojomoke
rojomoke

Reputation: 4025

find with the -name parameter and the ! negation operator:

find . -type f ! -name 20150328 -exec mv {} archieve \;

The {} matches the file just found, and the escaped semi-colon terminates the exec'ed command. To exclude multiple files, just repeat the ! -name filename clause

Upvotes: 2

Mintri
Mintri

Reputation: 133

execute: shopt -s extglob after that do: mv !(20150328) "destination"

Upvotes: 1

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