OT - Command line stuff
Dexter Filmore
Dexter.Filmore at gmx.de
Thu Jan 24 21:28:33 UTC 2008
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 20:04:51 Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 January 2008 15:57, Donn wrote:
> > You are in a dir in a console. You have a few consoles (or tabs) open
> > around the place. You want to move some files to another dir. You want
> > *.jpg but not "blob.jpg". You also want a few pdfs, but not all of them.
>
> (snip)
> This may not help you but is an introduction to my own question.
> I tried something like :
> ls | grep .jpg | grep -v blob
> That seemed to work
> (I tried "ls | grep .png | grep -v snap | grep -v ban" to remove all
> snapshot?.png and banner?.png from one of my dirs)
>
> The problem is I didn't find a method to interface that with mw or cp.
> Any tips?
Pipe the output into xargs or spare the grp stunt and use find with -a and -o
and -not switches plus -exec.
One could script this, I guess.
Dex
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