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Moving multiple files having spaces in name (Linux)

I have a directory which contains multiple files with spaces in their names. I want to find a pattern in the name and those file will be moved to some other directory. Now the problem is that when the particular pattern is found in a single file name, that file is moving to the destination path but when there are multiple files this method fails. Below is the code that I'm using :

for file in `find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*$pattern*xlsx" -type f`
do
 mv "$file" $destination/
done
Solution

  • No need to use a loop:

    find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*$pattern*xlsx" -type f -exec mv {} $destination +