Question

Basically what i want is this but in a for-loop..

echo `date +'['%H':'%M':'%S']'` - `mv -vf test* test/` > log.txt

This works as i want except that it print everything on a single line. I want it to make a new line and a date stamp for every file moved.

Right now i get:

[10:12:36] - "test1.txt" -> "test/test1.txt" "test2.txt" -> "test/test2.txt" "test.txt" -> "test/test.txt"

But want:

[10:12:36] - "test.txt" -> "test/test.txt" 
[10:12:37] - "test1.txt" -> "test/test1.txt"
[10:12:38] - "test2.txt" -> "test/test2.txt"

I guess i will need a for-loop to solve this but have not been able to figure it out. I also do not want to use variables as i want it on a single line. But that might not be possible?

Correct answer provided by Mat was:

for i in `mv -vf test* test/` ; do echo `date +'['%H':'%M':'%S']'` - $i ; done > log.txt

Answer 1

You could try:

IFS='
'; set -f
for i in `mv -vf test* test/` ; do echo `date +'['%H':'%M':'%S']'` - $i ; done