Use globbing:
mv *Chennai* target/
If the file names might start with a dot, use
mv .*Chennai* *Chennai* target/
Question
I have thousands of html file in a directory. I wanna extract files that contain Chennai in the file name and put it into another folder. I am sure it is possible. I am not close enough to copy the files to another folder.
Solution
Use globbing:
mv *Chennai* target/
If the file names might start with a dot, use
mv .*Chennai* *Chennai* target/
OTHER TIPS
Try:
find directory_with_htmls -type f -name "*Chennai*.html" -exec cp {} some_other_folder \;
This would copy html files in the directory_with_htmls
directory containing Chennai
in the name to the directory some_other_folder
.