Moving files to a directory

Question

I want to move all files matching a certain pattern in the current directory to another directory.

For example, how would I move all the files starting with

Answer 1

This will do it, though if you have any directories beginning with nz it will move those too.

for files in nz*
do
mv $files foobar
done

Edit: As shown above this totally over the top. However, for more complex pattern matches you might do something like:

for files in `ls | grep [regexp]`
do
mv $files foobar
done