find
A command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and then applies some requested action on each matched object
Find files based on Regex
find . -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*[0-9]\s.*'
Move files based on regex
Uses find
's -exec
option, which replaces {}
with each find result in turn, and
runs the command you give it
find . -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*[0-9]\s.*' -exec mv -t path_B {} +
On Mac, -regextype
isn't supported, so use `-E`:
find -E . -type f -regex '.*[0-9]\s.*' -exec mv -t path_B {} +
Copy files based on regex
Uses find
's -exec
option, which replaces {}
with each find result in turn, and
runs the command you give it
find . -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*[0-9]\s.*' -exec cp "{}" ../patch_B \;
On Mac, -regextype
isn't supported, so use `-E`:
find -E . -type f -regex '.*png' -exec cp "{}" ../logos \;