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give me a list of files from the month of May 2011
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files-from-month.sh
## give me a list of files from the month of May 2011
ls -laht --color=never | egrep 'May[ ]+[0-9]+[ ]+2011(.*)' | sed 's/.*2011 / /'
## move them to a separate directory
mkdir may-2011; ls -laht --color=never | egrep 'May[ ]+[0-9]+[ ]+2011(.*)' | sed 's/.*2011 / /' | xargs -I {} mv {} may-2011/
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Handy :-)

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