I want to mv the latest file to the specified directory.
ls -1t ~/Downloads | head -1 | gsed 's|^|~/Downloads/|g' | xargs -I {} mv {} ~/test/
Output:
mv: rename ~/Downloads/latest.jpg to /Users/home/test: No such file or directory
But following command does work:
mv ~/Downloads/latest.jpg ~/test/
So I think the reason it doesn’t work is the xargs command.
My environment is MacOS.
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This is a proper way to do it.
Don’t parse ls output like this.
array_list_temp=( * )
readarray -td '' array_list_temp_files < <(
perl -l0e '
print join "",
sort { -M $a <=> -M $b }
grep -f, @ARGV
' -- "${array_list_temp[@]}"
)
echo mv "${array_list_temp_files[0]}" ~ /test/
Remove echo when happy with the output.
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/736246/12574