> this is actually more disturbing. > > ls | parallel mv {} destdir > > find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} -P <NumJobs> /bin/mv {} <destdir>
If we're really going to pick nits here, those two aren't really identical. You'd probably want something like find . -depth 1 \! -name '.*' -print0 to start. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/