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Consider:

$ ls
foo  xyfooz.tex
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*foo*' -exec mv {} foo \;
$ ls ./foo*
xyfooz.tex

I'm trying to achieve the same sequence of instructions only with mv, not find:

$ ls
foo  xyfooz.tex
$ mv *foo* foo
mv: cannot stat '*foo*': No such file or directory
$ ls ./foo*
xyfooz.tex

Additionally (edit),

$ ls -F
foo/  xyfooz.tex*
$ mv -v *foo* foo

mv: cannot move 'foo' to a subdirectory of itself, 'foo/foo'
'xyfooz.tex' -> 'foo/xyfooz.tex'

How to make sure the 'stat' warning does not appear. In other words, I guess, I would I refine the pattern to limit the source to files not directories?

GNU bash, 4.3.48(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="18.3 (Sylvia)"

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