In Linux, how do I move all files and folders into a new directory?

Question

mv * doesn't work... I tried that

Answer 1

run:

mv -f * /home

mv [option] src dest

check out the manual pages of mv type

man mv

for more information

Answer 2

What do you want to do? Why doesn't mv * dir/ work? If having dir/ itself in the source list, try writing a glob pattern that includes everything other than dir/.

Answer 3

You'll have to give more details as to why mv does not work... but when doing 'not so usual' move, you might want to look at something like :

find . [add some filter here] -exec mv {} /path/to/destination \;

Answer 4

mv -f /source-folder /destination-folder

should work, I think