mv folder that match pattern

Question

I have hundreds of folders to organize according to the folder's name, let's say I have few folders that has name BBC and peppapig as the part of the name

e.g. (folders)

 doc_BBC_life
 BBC.nature
 peppapigepisode1
 kidspeppapigseries
 animalsBBC-docment
 newfolder1
 newfolder2

Now I want to move folders (there are four) that has the name "BBC" into the subfolder called newfolder1 and same goes for the folder that has the name "peppapig" into newfolder2 folder

Note: each folder has several files that also has the name either "BBC" or "peppapig", I want to maintain the contents without scrambling around.

I want to do something like this "mv BBC BBC/

Any suggestion using mv? thanks

Answer 1

You can use directly mv command to move as follows

 mv *BBC* newfolder1

And

 mv *peppapig* newfolder2

You can also do something like this using find

 find . -type d -name '*BBC*' -exec mv "{}" newfolder1 \;

And

 find . -type d -name '*peppapig*' -exec mv "{}" newfolder2 \;