Questions tagged [mv]
mv is a Unix command that moves a file to a target location.
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What can go wrong with this command for flatten a directory recursively?
I have a very messy deep file hierarchy tree of files with duplicate names in different directories and possibly even duplicate files with different names.
$ find mp4/ -type f | more
mp4/._.DS_Store
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Why can't I merge folders by renaming one of them?
Try to run this
mv -- "foldername...__" "foldername..."
This will move folder foldername...__ under the folder foldername... instead of renaming it. Why?
Note that foldername... ...
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mv affected by bind mounts (feels like a bug)
Originally, mv(1) was a rename operation; it updated names in filesystems and did not copy files. More recently, a convenience feature was added, whereby if the source and target were on different ...
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Help - I moved everything in the root directory to a directory of mine
So I was moving some files, I meant:
mv ./* ~/something
But I typed:
mv /* something
Now I can't boot up my computer and I couldn't because me: ls output: -bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
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Move a lot of folders with spaces in the name
I have a lot of webpages saved in my Download folder and I want to move all html files together with its folder (for every "NAME.html" exists "NAME_files/" folder).
The big ...
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Optimize rsync when large files move around on the source [duplicate]
Say I have a large directory tree of large files on disc A. I backup that tree with rsync -a --delete /A /B. So far so good. Between backups there are some added files, some renamed ones, the usual.
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Why does my bash shell script not work in MacOS Terminal?
I have a bash shell script change_filename.sh containing the line of code:
mv "dir\ 1/file1.txt" "dir\ 1/file2.txt"
which does not change the name of file1.txt to file2.txt as ...
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Recursively move and overwrite
I am using Ubuntu 24.10 and have a directory containing files and subdirectories:
main-dir
file1
file2
file3
subdir1
file1-1
file1-2
subdir1-1
file1-1-1
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How can I restore the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu folder?
I'm new to Linux and did something stupid. I'm using Kali and after apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, I encountered some issues. The desktop items were missing and windows no longer had a "bar&...
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`mv dir/file1 ..` removed file completely
Being in ~/dir1, I wanted to move the file ~/dir1/subdir1/file1 into ~. I executed mv subdir1/file1 ... No error occured. ~/dir1/subdir1 is empty, but I cannot find the file file1. Not in ~ and not in ...
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Where did i put my directory?
I wanted to move my World file from my Terraria Server and used
(I was currently in the .local directory)
sudo mv share/ /terraria because
I wanted to move the share folder into the terraria directory....
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To copy using cp non-recursively if the '-a' option is already used
BSD cp:
-a Archive mode. Same as -RpP options. Preserves structure and
attributes of files but not directory structure.
-P No symbolic links are followed. This is the ...
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To move files only; To copy folders only
Tested in Bash and Zsh:
copy nondot files | cp ~/dir1/* ~/dir2/
copy dot files | cp ~/dir1/.* ~/dir2/
copy both nondot and dot files | cp ~/dir1/{.,}* ~/dir2/
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Why is `mv -f source target` so much slower than `rm -f target && mv source target`
I got a case where I need to overwrite some file with another and noticed a very significant slowdown when using "mv -f" if the target already exists and is being read. More specifically, ...
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How can I move a subdirectory to overwrite the parent directory?
Let's say I run,
cd /tmp/
mkdir -p foo/bar/
echo test > foo/bar/1
Now I have a very simple
$ tree foo
foo
└── bar
└── 1
2 directories, 1 file
Now if I want to move foo/bar to overwrite foo, ...
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