On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Randall Mason <randall@mason.ch> wrote:

I would add quotes and use while, just in case the directory names have spaces and such. "for" splits on any whitespace, which could be quite troublesome.

grep -RFl "moe" somedirectory/ | while read file; do echo mv "`dirname "$file"`" "destination_path"; done

Randall Mason
randall@mason.ch

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Jamie Guinan <guinan@bluebutton.com> wrote:

Adding to that:

for FILE in $( grep -lRF moe somedirectory/* ) ; \

do echo mv -v $(dirname "$FILE") destination_path ; done

Remove the "echo" and repeat if it looks Ok.
Uses dirname to move the containing directory.

-Jamie

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, James Gray wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Maurice <mauricep@cds-cumberland.org> wrote:
> > Looking for some guidance;
> >
> > I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and
> > thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each
> > folder for a word match (like three_little_pigs.txt, and I need to find
> > "moe", if he's listed) and then when a match is found I need to move
> > (not copy) that entire folder (and it's 3~5 files contained within) to
> > another location...
> >
> > I'm thinking grep, but don't know the correct syntax to make all this
> > happen.
> > I can easily find all the folders (1949 of them) and the word match 3923
> > times within the text file(s)...
>
> I think this should do the trick. I haven't tested it cause I don't
> want to have *my* files moved around.
>
> for FILE in $( grep -lRF moe somedirectory/* ) ; do mv "$FILE"
> destination_path ; done
>
> ~James
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