moving everything except a directory

[Loren M. Lang]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:40:00PM -0500, Brian John wrote:
> 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?
> 

find ~ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name 2 -exec mv {} /path/to/new/place

find ~ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name 2 ! -name 7 -exec mv {} /path/to/new/place

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

> 
> Thanks
> 
> /Brian
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