Terminal For Loop; Move Multiple Files; Ubuntu

To move files using a for loop, do the following:

cd /path/to/files/directory
for i in *.txt; do mv $i ~/Desktop/destination/$i; done

The above code will move files with a txt extension to the destination folder on the desktop.

anonymous – Aug 21, 2010
Is there any specific reason you'd use that as opposed to
mv *.txt ~/Desktop/destination/
?
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anonymous – Aug 29, 2010
"Is there any specific reason you'd use that as opposed to mv *.txt ~/Desktop/destination/" for mv not really, but: cd path/to/scripts/ for i in *.sh; do bash $i; done
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anonymous – Sep 20, 2010
Batch transcoding:
#!/bin/bash
vcodec="VIDEO_CODEC"
acodec="AUDIO_CODEC"
bitrate="VIDEO_BITRATE"
arate="AUDIO_BITRATE"
ext="OUTPUT_EXT"
mux="MUXER"
vlc="PATH_TO_VLC"
fmt="INPUT_EXT"
for a in *$fmt; do
$vlc -I dummy -vvv "$a" --sout "#transcode{vcodec=$vcodec,vb=$bitrate,acodec=$acodec,ab=$arate,channels=6}:standard{mux=$mux,dst=\"$a.$ext\",access=file}"vlc://quit
done
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anonymous – Dec 16, 2012
how to arrange the curly brace and write some data under iy in another para
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