Moving All Files From Directories One Step Up
Question
I have a directories that look like this
fool@brat:/mydir/ucsc_mm8> tar -xvf *.tar
1/chr1.fa.masked
1/chr1_random.fa.masked
2/chr2.fa.masked
3/chr3.fa.masked
4/chr4.fa.masked
5/chr5.fa.masked
5/chr5_random.fa.masked
19/chr19.fa.masked
Un/chrUn_random.fa.masked
What I want to do is to move out all the "*.masked" files in the subdirectories /1
upto /Un
.
Is there a compact way to do it in Linux/Unix?
Solution
The typical way of moving files all files matching a particular expression is
mv 1/*.masked targetDir
where targetDir could be ..
If you want to move it from directories 1,2,3 then you can do something like
mv */*.masked targetDir
Or, if you want to specifically move it from numbered directories, you can just run something like
mv [0-9][0-9]/*.masked targetDir
OTHER TIPS
Many unix shells support the * operator in the directory portion of the path as well. The following works in at least bash and zsh:
ls */*.masked
This will return all of the files that end in .masked one directory deeper.
So to move them:
mv */*.masked destination
mv */*.masked .
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