Dear Friends,
I have a directory named tech, there are many files with *.uni extensions in this directory.The files with *.uni are continuously coming in tech directory.In tech directory, there is one directory named best. Now i want to move the files with *.uni extensions in this best directory. How can i do that. Please suggest a script in UNIX for this.

NAVIN KUMAR

The typical way of moving files and directories is with the mv command:

cd /pathto/tech
mv *.uni best

The above contains no error checking, so use the cp command until you get the script the way you want it.

Check out this link for more info on this topic:

http://students.cs.unipi.gr/pub/doc...

Error "arguments too long" comes.

NAVIN KUMAR

You must be trying to move a very large number of files to get a "arguments too long" error. Generally, you can get around the "arguments too long" problem by using a combination of the find/xargs command.

Read about it in this online article, "Using the xargs Command":
http://www.unixreview.com/documents...

You can probably do something like this:

# untested untested untested
cd /pathto/tech
find ./ -type f -name "*.uni" -print | xargs -l56 -i mv -f {} ./best

I suggest you read the article.

I see another potential problem with having directory "best" right below the current directory. The find command probably will probably find those "uni" files.

This also not worked.

nkbeet

You'd get more help if you posted WHY it didn't work. Also, asking the same question in a different thread won't do you much good either.