18.11 Find Files Execute Command

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Move all files in the current folder that match a regex pattern into a subfolder called statements:

$  find . -maxdepth 1 -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*_[[:digit:]]{4}.pdf' \
          -exec mv {} statements \;

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