Thank you for that clarification.
Now what happens is this:
#cat workmv | xargs -i mv ./mqueue/'{}' ./mqueue/offline
mv: cannot stat `./mqueue/*j17KeeL7025621': No such file or
directory
mv: cannot stat ... one for each entry in workmv
#
# ll ./mqueue/*j17KeeL7025621
-rw------- 1 root root 19397 Feb 7 15:41
./mqueue/dfj17KeeL7025621
-rw------- 1 root smmsp 1812 Feb 8 13:41
./mqueue/qfj17KeeL7025621
Do I need to escape the leading * in the workfile?
Regards,
Jim
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