[plug] Mass moving files with a script

[Michael Holland]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ben Woods wrote:

> in the filenames etc... anyone good at bash scripting that can help me
> out? The bit I am struggling with is really the string recognition /
> analysis at the start.

You need "regular expressions", one of the more amazingly useful things in
Unix.
 I'd use Perl, which has the best pattern matching, but some claim that
bash now has in-process regex capability. (ie no need to 'grep')

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash#In-process_regular_expressions