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Subject: Re: 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory
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zzapper wrote:
> Hi
> I want to 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory.
> Should be trivial but cant think how w/o creating a temporary file
> 
> 
> 

Are you looking for smth like:

find . -type f -exec grep -e "a certain string" {} \; -exec mv {} tmp \;

HTH

Heinrich