Question

I have some text files in a directory. I would like to read all the files in this directory and if the file has the following line

SAMPLE 350 AN INTEGER OF TYPE :DECIMAL : CAN BE ASSEMBLED BY move that file with its all contents to another directory.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Using find and grep:

$ find . -type f -exec \
  fgrep -l "SAMPLE 350 AN INTEGER OF TYPE :DECIMAL : CAN BE ASSEMBLED BY" {} \; \
  | xargs -i%  mv % /path/to/new/dir