Excuse me, it’s microslop. ;)

find /path/to/starting/dir -type f -regextype egrep -regex 'some[[:space:]]*regex[[:space:]]*(goes|here)' -exec mv {} /path/to/new/directory/ \;

I routinely have to find a bunch of files that match a particular pattern and then do something with those files, and as a result, find with -exec is one of my top commands.

If you’re someone who doesn’t know wtf that above command does, here’s a breakdown piece by piece:

• find - cli tool to find files based on lots of different parameters
• /path/to/starting/dir - the directory at which find will start looking for files recursively moving down the file tree
• -type f - specifies I only want find to find files.
• -regextype egrep - In this example I’m using regex to pattern match filenames, and this tells find what flavor of regex to use
• -regex 'regex.here' - The regex to be used to pattern match against the filenames
• -exec - exec is a way to redirect output in bash and use that output as a parameter in the subsequent command.
• mv {} /path/to/new/directory/ - mv is just an example, you can use almost any command here. The important bit is {}, which is the placeholder for the parameter coming from find, in this case, a full file path. So this would read when expanded, mv /full/path/of/file/that/matches/the/regex.file /path/to/new/directory/
• \; - This terminates the command. The semi-colon is the actual termination, but it must be escaped so that the current shell doesn’t see it and try to use it as a command separator.

What’s the actual story behind this meme template?

No joke.

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Come on gang! We all know the real answer is Hannah Montana!

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Accidental Renaissance

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To check for an empty string, use -z. -n checks to see if a string is not empty.

It has a fingerprint reader.

Absolutely. There are different options.

If you want something simple, just contacts and calendar, check out Radicale. I’ve been running radicals for years and its great.

If you want something more like a whole google suite replacement (contacts, calendar, drive, docs, photos, etc), look at Nextcloud

What do you like about chezmoi vs stow?

I don’t share mine. I manage them with gnu stow and my private gitforge on my server (with 3-2-1 backup in place)

I don’t have an objection to sharing them. I don’t think it’s too personal, I just don’t use a public facing gitforge.

Edit to add: I have branches for my different machines in my dotfiles repo for variations

I run arch on my laptop (btw), and Ubuntu server on my server. I like how reliable and stable Ubuntu server is. Gives me piece of mind.

I’ve already aliased gl for git log with my flags, but have been too lazy to add more aliases.

Oh. I did not know that. Gonna try that right now.

jq is indispensable.

zoxide. It’s cd but better. It remembers which directories you’ve navigated to, and fuzzy finds them.

So instead of typing:

cd /really/long/path/to/sime/dir

You can type:

zoxide dir

And it’ll take you right to the directory.

I’ve got it aliased to zd so I type:

zd dir

And I’m there.

Thank you for the link!

I do understand the logic and the difference between ;, &&, and `||. What was confusing me was the command grouping and my misunderstanding of the curly brace grouping rule that the command list has to END with a semicolon. @[email protected] pointed out to me with the link in the comment they left.

I had read that same link and misunderstood it. On second read I got it, and see now why my script is working, as the newlines serve the same purpose as the semicolon, so the curly braced groups are terminated correctly.