Moving All Files From Directories One Step Up

The typical way of moving files all files matching a particular expression is

mv 1/*.masked targetDir

where targetDir could be ..

If you want to move it from directories 1,2,3 then you can do something like

mv */*.masked targetDir

Or, if you want to specifically move it from numbered directories, you can just run something like

mv [0-9][0-9]/*.masked targetDir

linux bash shell unix mv

mv */*.masked .

linux bash shell unix mv

Many unix shells support the * operator in the directory portion of the path as well. The following works in at least bash and zsh:

ls */*.masked

This will return all of the files that end in .masked one directory deeper.

So to move them:

mv */*.masked destination

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