Re: question about the "copy, then remove" behaviour of mv

[Henrik Carlqvist]

Musaul Karim <musaul@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way around it to make mv do the "copy, remove" operation
> iteratively per file, rather than as a single operation for all the
> files?

Instead of something like

mv file*ext /new/path

You could do

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "file*ext" -exec mv {} /new/path \;

regards Henrik
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