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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: is there a way to use *.{txt,zip,tbz,dmg} if one or more might be missing?
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 17:10:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7a3mZqZzjtnD3kZonx0QnMfAyFGrHxrqmhns9dpmDEUDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADjGqHvD+NwA3XxrG_OgJ06Zdi5frpVC6VCqKKZ1bWpHwtpshA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 4:28 PM TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to do basically the same thing, but tell `mv` "if is at
> least one file with any of these extensions, then move to ~/dir/" ?

Use an alternation pattern instead of brace expansion:

    mv -vn *.(txt|zip|tbz|dmg) ~/dir/

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-08  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-07 23:27 TJ Luoma
2019-07-08  0:10 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2019-07-08 10:44   ` Peter Stephenson
2019-07-08 12:14     ` Mikael Magnusson

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