How to move multiple files at once to a specific destination directory?

You could use

mv -t DESTINATION file1 file2 file3

and

mv -t DESTINATION `ls|grep IDENTIFIER`

works, but I'm not sure if mv is invoked multiple times or not as grep will output a new line for each match.

If you want to move ABC-IDENTIFIER-XYZ.ext or IDENTIFIER-XYZ.xml, you can use:

mv *IDENTIFIER* ~/YourPath/

* is a wildcard for zero or more characters, this means zero or more characters, followed by IDENTIFIER, followed by zero or more characters.

This will move all the files that contain the IDENTIFIER you specified.

You can use wildcards.

Example: To move all files having extension .doc

mv *.doc /path/to/dest/folder/

This will move all doc file under the current directory to the specific destination.

Edit

To answer the comment.

mv *.ext *.xml *.txt /path/to/dest/folder/