Answer by Gilles for Find and move with exclude
It's generally a bad idea to parse the output of ls or find, because you can't distinguish which characters are part of a file name and which characters are separators. If you don't control the file...
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Using "find" command: find ./*.xml -type f ! -name "deposit.xml" -exec mv {} ./Archive ';' Using "find" with "xargs" command: find ./*.xml -type f ! -name "deposit.xml" | xargs -I {} mv {} ./Archive...
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find . ! -name "deposit.xml" -name "*.xml" -exec mv {} ./temp \; find has -exec option using which we can execute commands with the result file as operand and use '! -name' option to exclude file.
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And the problem is that you don't want to display the error message or that you don't want the command being run if there are no .xml? In the first case redirect output 2>/dev/null and no error...
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I need to use find and mv together requirement : Need to find all file *.xml but exclude deposit.xml and move it to another folder ( fairly simple) My attempt : mv `find ./*.xml '!' -type d | fgrep -v...
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