find top 100 files and move them

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

i have some 1000 files in my dir and i want to find top 100 files and move them to some other location:

below the 2 commands i used, but it is not working

ls -ltr | grep ^- | head -100 | xargs mv destination - _________>not working

ls -ltr | grep ^- | head -100 | xargs mv {} destination- ___________>not working

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plz help me in this?

2

replace:

ls -ltr

with:

ls -1 -tr
3

can you please tell me how to implement this in my above commands

4

The following shows how to do with a copy command

> ls
./  ../  file1  file2  moved/  psrf*  psrf2*  rawfile  rawsorted

> cp `ls -ltr | grep "^-" | tail -2 | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f9` moved

> ls moved
./  ../  file1  file2

So, you are going to want to do something lke

> mv `ls -ltr | grep ^- | head -100 | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f9` destination

And if I thought long enough, I would bet there would be a way to accomplish with a find command also. The beauty of unix - many ways to approach and solve problems.