How can I use a wildcard to match just files, not directories?
With zsh
, use glob qualifiers:
mv home*(.) dst
moves only regular files.
While
mv home*(^/) dst
moves files of any type except directories.
mv home*(^-/) dst
would also exclude symlinks to directories.
You can use find. The following should work.
find . -name home\* -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} /home/homeLife/. \;
You can use bash extended globs:
shopt -s extglob ## activate extglogs if not yet done
mv home!(*Life) homeLife/ ## !(p1|...) = anything except one of the patt