moving everything except a directory

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2005 00:40 CEST schrieb Brian John:
> Say I am at ~ and I have 10 directories inside named 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6,
> 7, 8, 9 and 10.  What command can I use to move everything but directory
> 2?  What if I wanted to move everything but directories 2 and 7?

See regular expressions, for example 'mv ^[2,7] /another/dir'
would do the job.

You should correct your date! ntpdate is helpful!

-Harry

> I'm not sure how to use the mv command to do this in 1 comand.
>
> Thanks
>
> /Brian
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