Moving some certain folders in a directory into a folder in the same directory in bash scripting linux

Question

i wanted to move some folders in a directory into the another folder in the same directory. I want three of the folders in the directory to stay there and all the others into one of these three folders.

for folders in */; do
    if ["$folders" != "constant"] || ["$folders" != "system"] || ["$folders" != "postProcessing"]; then
        mv folders ./postProcessing
    fi
done

I get this error:

line 10: [0/: No such file or directory
line 10: [0/: No such file or directory
line 10: [0/: No such file or directory
line 10: [0.1/: No such file or directory
line 10: [0.1/: No such file or directory
line 10: [0.1/: No such file or directory
line 10: [0.2/: No such file or directory
line 10: [0.2/: No such file or directory
line 10: [0.2/: No such file or directory

I'd really appreciate if somebody can help me out.

Best Regards

Put a valid shebang and paste your script at https://shellcheck.net for validation/recommendations. — Jetchisel, Oct 18 '22 at 16:08
On a side note, folder and directory are the same, so please clarify what is the difference between the two... — Jetchisel, Oct 18 '22 at 16:09
`shopt -s extglob; mv !(constant|system|postProcessing)/ postProcessing` — oguz ismail, Oct 18 '22 at 16:17

Moving some certain folders in a directory into a folder in the same directory in bash scripting linux

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