On 9/25/19 2:11 PM, Ole Tange wrote: > I think you are right. The goal is to emulate 'ls'. > > As you can see from GNU Parallel's manual I would use printf instead: > > printf '%s\0' * | parallel -0 mv {} destdir
This is the best option, with the usual caveat about having to change the pattern if you have `dotglob' enabled. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/