[ILUG] Piping to mv

[Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]

mv foobar* /destfolder

steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin MacCarthy [mailto:macarthy at iol.ie]
Sent: 19 June 2002 10:11
To: Ilug at Linux.Ie
Subject: [ILUG] Piping to mv


Is it possible to pipe into mv ??

I want to do something like 

find / 'foobar*' | mv   /destfolder

i.e. move all files called foobar* into destfolder 

I know find has an -exec flag but I was just wondering ...



Cheers 
Justin

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