Question

I have a file that on each line is a string of some numbers such as

1234
2345
...

I need to move files that contain that number in their name followed by other stuff to a directory examples being

1234_hello_other_stuff_2334.pdf
2345_more_stuff_3343.pdf

I tried using xargs to do this, but my bash scripting isn’t the best. Can anyone share the proper command to accomplish what I want to do?

Answer 1

for i in `cat numbers.txt`; do
    mv ${i}_* examples
done

or (look ma, no cat!)

while read i; do
    mv ${i}_* examples
done < numbers.txt