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From: GIAMPAL@auvm.auvm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
Message-ID: <91128.081419GIAMPAL@auvm.auvm.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 12:14:19 GMT
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In article <MWM.91May7110230@raven.pa.dec.com>, mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch
Has Windows) Meyer) says:
>For instance, on unix, to move all the .c files out of a directory
>requires exec'ing one cp per file, even though cp takes multiple
>arguments. You do:
>
>        find . -name '*.c' -exec cp '{}' dest \;
>
Mike, I don't think that's the case in Unix (at least not under Csh on
SunOS greater than 3.5).  I normally do :

         mv *.c /tmp

And that works just fine.  Of course if I want to move directories I
have to do them separately, but there's no need to use find to just
move a couple of files to another directory.

--dominic