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Created March 31, 2014 19:05
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Clean folder by moving all files not appended with underscore to Trash (Mac Only)
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ls -1 | grep -v '^_' | xargs -I '{}' mv {} ~/.Trash
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You should probably use find -print0 and xargs -0 rather than ls, as if you have any filenames with spaces in, it will break the xargs mv

so like

find . -maxdepth 1 -print0 ! -name '_*' | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv {} ~/.Trash

...and maybe use -type f as a form of damage limitation?

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Seems to work fine with files that have a space.
But I must admit, I am not sure why.

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