#!sh grep and move files

[Andy Harrison]

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On 03-Apr-2003, Matthew Bettinger wrote message "#!sh grep and move files"
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> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to find the best way to search through several thousand files and
> move some to a different directory.  The files are all prefixed with LB.  
> Like, LBX99.DAT141683.
> 
> These are data transactions and contain one line.  The lines i am trying to 
> search for all begin with 
> 
> 1~TA~  (standing for timeand attendance labor transactions)
> 
>  I've tried
> 
>#!/usr/bin/sh
> for x in `find /dir -type f -exec grep '1~TA' [] \;`
> do
> mv $x /newdir
> done
> ----------------------------
> 
> 
> There  seems to be something i am missing like some output redirection or an 
> ls listing... probably alot more.
> 
> I know this can be done in a one liner somehow but I need it to be executed 
> from cron.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.
> Matt
> 
> 

Change it to this and it should be ok

`find /dir -type f -name 'LB*' | xargs grep -l '^1~TA'`



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