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rjcorwin/Find files with matching string in title and move to another directory.sh

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Find files with matching string in title and move to another directory.sh
#/bin/bash
# First param is the string to match, second is the destination directory.
ls -d -1 $PWD/* | sed 's/\ /\\\ /g' | sed 's/\*/\\\*/g' | sed 's/\#/\\\#/g' | sed "s/\'/\\\'/g" | grep $1 | xargs -I {} cp "{}" $2
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