How to move all files from one folder of a different partition in terminal?

Question

I am new to GNU/Linux, but I'm trying to learn it and already deleted my Windows OS (yeeeaahhhhh).

Now I've already done the operation dragging the files in Nautilus, but i wanna know how to do it in terminal.

I've tried a lot of different commands and methods but I couldn't do it in terminal.

I had a partition (sda4) named Backup with a Folder named Videos inside and I wanted to move all the files(not the folder) in it to my /home/Videos Folder.

opening the terminal in Backup in Nautilus I've tried (also tried without "~") :

mv -v ~/Videos/* ~/home/wagner/Videos
mv -v ~media/wagner/Backup/Videos/* ~/home/wagner/Videos
mv -v ~/media/wagner/Backup/Videos/* ~/home/wagner/Videos
mv -v ~/media/wagner/Backup/Videos/* ~/home/wagner/Videos
mv -v ~/Videos/* ~/home/wagner/Videos

then I opened as root:

sudo -H gnome-terminal

and tried:

mv -v ~/media/wagner/Backup/Videos/* ~/home/wagner/Videos
lsblk
../
cd ../
cd /media
cd wagner
cd Backup
ls -l
mv -v ~/Videos/* ~/home/wagner/Videos
cd videos
cd Videos
ls -l
cd/
cd /
cd /media
cd wagner
cd Backup
mv -v /Videos/* /home/wagner/Videos
mv -v /Videos/*.* /home/wagner/Videos

Couldn't do it any way. So I'm posting everything I've done to you to help me find out why I couldn't do it. What I've did wrong ?

Answer 1

Your external disk is mounted at the location /media/wagner/Backup.
The directory where the files you want to copy are located is /media/wagner/Backup/Videos. The destination directory is /home/wagner/Videos or ~/Videos, which is the same.

Note that ~ is a synonym for /home/YOUR_USERNAME, i.e. /home/wagner in your case.

The command you want to run is this:

mv -v /media/wagner/Backup/Videos/* ~/Videos

Alternatively, if your current working directory is already /media/wagner/Backup, this is enough:

mv -v Videos/* ~/Videos

Answer 2

The ~ is the same thing as /home/wagner (your HOME directory)

You said you mounted sda4 as Backup, so go inside Backup and try: mv Videos/* ~/Videos