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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:51:20 +0100
From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
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To: zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 'mv' all files containing a certain string to a sub-directory
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On 10/31/06, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> wrote:
> Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote in news:200610311419.k9VEJaKf009817
> @news01.csr.com:
>
> > zzapper wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > mv *(.e:'grep -q string $REPLY':) subdir
> >
> Seeing PWS's reply reminded me of the conventional way to do this
>
> mv $(grep -il "userid" *.php) done

That doesn't work with files with spaces in them, though.

  nikolai