Questions tagged [mv]
mv is a UNIX command to move a file to another directory or rename it.
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How to check what was moved when using “mv” and the process stops due to permissions issues?
I want to move a folder (test) on our server from /home/data to /home/projects/data. What I did is to use mv.
It did not move the folder in the end for some permission problems. However, the folder ...
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Ubuntu mv Command turned folder in file with unknown details
I moved a folder using mv and now my folder is a file with unknown details.
The command I ran was mv juno-projects/ juno. After running this command juno is a file not a folder and more than that the ...
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bash move file relative to its position
As the title says, can I move a file relative to its current position?
Let's assume I am in the root directory, with the following file structure:
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├──home
└──user
├──Documents
└──...
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mv: target 'XXX' is not a directory
I am trying to write a bash script that will go through a directory
and rename the files (the file name is really crazy and is not recognizable to any human as what they are) to "Chapter1.mp3&...
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My user home directories disappeared after a move command
I was trying to move some files and following a post here on the forum I ran the follow command, but an error came and I hit Ctrl+C and my /desktop /documents /music folders and its contents are gone....
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mv directories, skip files which exist and are same length
I want to recursively mv directory src/foo/ to dest/foo/ while
skipping files which already exist in dest if they are the same length as the counterpart in src (assumed to be identical) so just rm ...
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How to prevent interrupted mv moving data
On Ubuntu 18.04 I am running a small PHP web application which moves directories one by one with nested dirs and files from one filesystem to another via exec(mv filepath) method.
Now I have the ...
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Best method (mv/cp) to replace an active file in linux?
I am making a script for updating a text include/conf file for an active service. The script will first write changes to a temp file. When done, to replace the include file with the temp file, ...
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Unable to use mv with wildcards in Mac OS X
I am trying to use the command
mv ./?*20?* new_directory
running ls ./?*20?* gives multiple matches, but the above command gives me
usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
mv [-f | -i | -n]...
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how to make mv ignore when renaming directory with the same name
I have a for loop on which I have directories that the mv command will apply the same name to its directories, other directories have different names, for example:
for i in {1..3};do
mv hg/ hg
done
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How to move all subdirectories into the parent folder in bash?
Suppose, I have a parent folder which includes 4 sub-folders. Each of the sub-folders can have a different number of subfolders (let's call them sub-sub-folders). How do I move all sub-sub-folders ...
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“The system cannot find the path specified” error in Jupyter Notebook
I have been given a Jupyter Notebook which was made on a Linux computer and now I'm trying to get it to work on my Windows home computer. The problem comes when using the !/bin/mv command.
I have ...
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Shrink filename (remove last N columns)
I want to remove from this filename last 3 columns
david@david-ThinkPad-E480:~/Downloads$ ll A*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 16006720 сен 9 11:03 'A.Matrosov. E.Rodionov. S.Bratus. Rootkits and Bootkits. ...
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Using MV to rename image files using a script
I am trying to rename a set of Tiff images 001, 001 x, 002 , 002 x sequentially.
I am looking for the script to name image 001, 002, 003 and so on
This is the script I am running.
num=1
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Move multiple directories at once, how?
In directory_1, I have numerous subdirectories with names consisting only of digits, and some of these need to be moved to directory_BB:
directory_1
3245561
8978554
2345556
3453456
6873253
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While doing mv from one disk partition to another disk partition, my files are deleted, is there any way i can retrieve it?
I mounted /backup partition by adding another disk than ran a command in /backup1 directory which is the part of root partition which belongs to old disk.
I ran this command - mv * /backup/
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How does this find state actually work in moving a file up one directory?
Can someone explain how the string manipulation in this find statement actually works? My head is about to explode trying to figure it out. :-o
From: UNIX shell scripting: how to recursively move ...
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Remove a word from file names on Linux
I accidentally ran exiftool -all= * on my Linux system in my Downloads folder (the command removes the EXIF metadata from all files in the current directory). Luckily, exiftool creates backup files by ...
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Move only a certain sub-directory to a new folder with shell script
I have a folder Accounts containing mail accounts, all of these folders have a folder Archive.folder. I want to move all of archive folders with a simple script to a new folder.
I tried this so far:
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Find and rename forward slash in directory name (Linux / OmniOS)?
On a fileserver at work, we have a bunch of old directories made on macOS (that was previously on an AFP share) that has / in the name. I would like to replace / with -, but am having a hard time ...
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Where did my files go after using mv command?
All my .c source files and a Readme file were in a subdirectory called assignment2 in a directory called Assignment2. Originally, from assignment2 directory:
$ ls
corrupt.c decode.c encode.c fix.c ...
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mv all files with different extention to a new directory with new filename and same extention
could anyone tell my how I could make a script for moving files (filename given but all possible extentions) to another new directory with new filename but same extentions.
f.e. (dir or filename ...
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Lost my files while moving on AWS S3
I used the command on CLI -
aws s3 mv s3://<source_directory_path> <destination_directory_path> --recursive
aws s3 mv s3://<source_directory_path> s3://<...
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When moving a directory into another directory, is there a simple way to generate a failure when the target directory doesn't exist?
I had a habit of using mv directory1 directory2/ thinking that if I mistyped the name of directory2 it would fail and warn me the directory didn't exist. As it turns out, that's not the case.
Is ...
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Added files and folders gone after MV run
I ran mv /folder1/folder2/folder3/ /folderA/FolderB/FolderC/. Then I added more files and folders to /folder1/folder2/folder3/ during the move. It seems all of the files I added after I started the mv ...
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Linux: moving files from different directories with same name into one while renaming them
I batch-ripped my old CDs to Track1.mp3. The problem is Each CD directory has Track1.mp3 so when I move them to /Music, they overwrite!
Is there possibly a bash script or mv command to move .mp3s ...
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Keep SSH connection alive when moving large folder
Context :
I have a web server (my hosting provider is OVH).
I have a large folder with many files in many sub-directories (100k+ files).
I need to move this directory from one place to anuther on ...
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Move a range of numbered files and change their value
I've got numbered files (DSC_0001.jpg to DSC_0065.jpg), I know how to move them with mv DSC_{0001..0065}.jpg dir.
I have no idea how to move them and change the range of values.
mv DSC_{0001.....
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Renaming a file with mv: "cannot move to a subdirectory of itself"
I'm trying to rename a file using the regular mv command which has worked countless times before.
$ ls -l |grep "Picture 001"
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rolf rolf 657711 Feb 19 21:42 Picture 001_19.jpg
$ mv "...
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OSX terminal: how to move thousand of files that match a specific name pattern [duplicate]
I have some 70,000 files (basically duplicates) most of which match a name pattern like name(1).ext, name(2).ext .... name(10).ext. However among these files there are others named name (xwz).ext.
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mv files with multiple `.` in the file name
I have some files I receive with names like (to many to do this manually everyday):
AA.B.txt
WW.C.txt
and I want to rename them to AA_B.txt and WW_C.txt so that existing SQL code still functions as ...
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mv deleting files at the end instead of one by one
I am moving a folder recursively between two filesystems using mv -v.
It seems like deletions happen at the end (in order to make mv transactional ?). I don't have enough space to hold two copies of ...
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how to rename all files under folder with specific extension name ( recursive approach )
we want to rename all files under /home/DB_home ( recursive )
so every file under DB_home will rename with .txt extension
example
before change
/home/DB_home/hg/ir/qemu-ga
/home/DB_home/td/...
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Moving files with extension from source to destination
Hello i am trying to move all files with .hi and .o extension from a target folder /src to another folder /Obj
So far i have tried:
srcpath=$(pwd)"/src"
ghc src/Main.hs > Logs/output....
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Linux: Move files from unknown folder to unknown parent of the same unknown folder
Got your attention with that title, didn't I? LOL.
Problem: I have a lot of folders that have a folder inside them, with files inside. I want to move the 2nd level files into the 1st level and do so ...
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moving files matching a pattern that catches the directory
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:
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Mv all files to Dropbox
I accidentally moved all files from the directory to the Dropbox folder:
mv * ~/Dropbox/
That was not my intention at all. Now, Dropbox informed me that 1200 new files were uploaded, but I can't see ...
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What is the best and safest way to move files between HDDs in linux? [closed]
I have to move 5GB of data in certain folders (containing files smaller than 1MB) from an external HDD to another (both connected with USB 3.0). What is the best/safest way to make this transfer in ...
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Move files from subdirectories into single directory and prefix original directory name
I have a directory structure like this:
./a/1.png
./a/2.png
./a/3.png
./b/1.png
./b/2.png
./b/3.png
./c/1.png
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And I want to take all the files in the subdirectories and move them to a new ...
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accidentally clobbered directory using `mv` instead of `mv -t`
I accidentally did
mv file /an/important/directory
instead of
mv file /an/important/directory/ or
mv file -t /an/important/directory,
so it now looks like /an/important/directory/ is clobbered. (I ...
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Fastest way to duplicate or copy or back up a directory with TB of data (image files) in it
Hi can you suggest an very efficient and high performance option to copy files (TB of data in the form of images are present) from one disk to another.
I saw options like cp, rsync etc., but would ...
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What is the behavior of mv on /?
One of our users accidentally performed mv /* ../ without root permission. After checking the effects using diff I was surprised to find that mv apparently functioned as cp when applied to the / dir.
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mv command failed now file missing
So i ran mv command and it failed with
mv: cannot stat ‘/root/HIDDENDIR/HIDDEN-DIR/recover.php’: No such file or directory
And now file is missing from original and target directory. I even tried ...
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Mass checking and renaming for illegal characters in both files and folders
I wrote a python script in which it reads a text file that contains thousands of folder directory.
While executing my script, I added in du -sch to try and get an approximate total size of all these ...
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Linux - Will the CP command overwrite an open file
I would like to know if I use the CP or MV command as root to copy a file to a new directory, which already contains that file and is currently open by another user, then would the operation succeed ...
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mv command deleted source files even though the file was not fully moved
I was using mv command to move multiple files from the directory A to directory B. The file system where the directory B is located was full, so I received corresponding messages. However, files were ...
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Files location after mv command without absolute paths
I have accidentally run mv command in folder to rename files. But I have forgot to specify absolute path (I did just mv old_name new_name). Now the files are gone. Any idea where those files are?
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sed: cannot rename ./sed6x9apB: Operation not permitted using docker-compose with WordPress image
WordPress container fails to start when using docker-compose, where there are existing WordPress files, aborting with the following error:
sed: cannot rename ./sedtpghTB: Operation not permitted
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Linux Bulk rename media files and directories to place parentheses around the year at the end of the filename and directory name
I have a number of home video files in different directories that have a year at the end of the directory name to indicate the year that the video was filmed. It is also at the end of the filenames ...
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Shellscript - Reading filepath from textfile for restore
I'm working on a Recycle Bin script which I can call to delete a file and restore a file.
The delete currently works fine and can be called using a wildcard, filename (for current directory) or a ...
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