Hi, all.

I'm a DBA on an AIX 5.2 system.

My main role is DBA, not AIX admin, so I'm relegated to only learning
those bits of AIX which I need for my job. So if this seems like a
'basic' question, *sorry*. ;-)

My scenario is this: I have a directory with some files in it, and I
want to move only those files whose name contains a certain string (ie
'temp') into another directory.

I can get the list of these files with
ls | grep temp

So: can I not take the output of that command and insert it into a mv,
kind of like

ls | grep tmp | mv <newfolder> ??

....which would result in the files whose names contain the string
'temp' being moved to the new folder?

I'm sure I'll get it if I keep mucking about, but all I need is an
insight into redirecting output of shell commands.

Is there a quick syntactic pointer that someone can give me here?

Thanks!!

BD.

BD wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I'm a DBA on an AIX 5.2 system.
>
> My main role is DBA, not AIX admin, so I'm relegated to only learning
> those bits of AIX which I need for my job. So if this seems like a
> 'basic' question, *sorry*. ;-)
>
> My scenario is this: I have a directory with some files in it, and I
> want to move only those files whose name contains a certain string (ie
> 'temp') into another directory.
>
> I can get the list of these files with
> ls | grep temp
>
> So: can I not take the output of that command and insert it into a mv,
> kind of like
>
> ls | grep tmp | mv <newfolder> ??
>
> ...which would result in the files whose names contain the string
> 'temp' being moved to the new folder?
>
> I'm sure I'll get it if I keep mucking about, but all I need is an
> insight into redirecting output of shell commands.
>
> Is there a quick syntactic pointer that someone can give me here?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> BD.
>
It sounds like you only need:
mv *temp* <newfolder>

>mv *temp* <newfolder>

Erf. Yes, that works. Thanks.

I knew it'd be way simpler than I feared. Oh well.