Basic question about redirecting output

Hi, all.

I'm a DBA on an AIX 5.2 system.

My main role is DBA, not AIX admin, so I'm relegated to only learning
those bits of AIX which I need for my job. So if this seems like a
'basic' question, *sorry*. ;-)

My scenario is this: I have a directory with some files in it, and I
want to move only those files whose name contains a certain string (ie
'temp') into another directory.

I can get the list of these files with
ls | grep temp

So: can I not take the output of that command and insert it into a mv,
kind of like

ls | grep tmp | mv <newfolder> ??

....which would result in the files whose names contain the string
'temp' being moved to the new folder?

I'm sure I'll get it if I keep mucking about, but all I need is an
insight into redirecting output of shell commands.

Is there a quick syntactic pointer that someone can give me here?

Thanks!!

BD.

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