Questions tagged [mv]
Tag for questions about the terminal command "mv" to move and rename files.
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I tried this command now I cannot find my file after running sudo mv K8s.odt /Desktop [duplicate]
I used this command from home to move the file to my desktop and now I cannot find it
sudo mv K8s.odt /Desktop
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How to move found files to another directory?
Hello to everyone I have the following script that works fine except the mv argument. The script basically searching for the files that were created at a specific time and the I need to move all of ...
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zip command throwing error Ubuntu (14.04.5 LTS), Please suggest [closed]
when I am running(zip t3.zip t1.txt) in Ubuntu CLI, its showing error, but generating a random binary file (eg: zin6e9Tx, you can see in 3rd line).
# zip t3.zip t1.txt
adding: t1.txt (stored 0%)...
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Accidentally ran the command mv lib/* /usr/lib/* and now many commands like “sudo” and “java” don't work anymore
mv lib/* /usr/lib/*
I ran this to move all my files in lib into /usr/lib directory it did move them but up with the above mentioned errors. I was in /home/appu/ directory when I ran the command.
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How do you rename files from one incrementing pattern to another?
I have a group of files that are named as follows:
048. banana.mkv
049. apple.mkv
050. mango.mkv
051. pear.mkv
052. grape.mkv
I need to rename those files with the following naming convention
01. ...
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mv: missing destination file operand when special characters are involved [duplicate]
This one's silly. I saved my vim session with :Obsess -S Session.vim instead of :Obsess Session.vim, so now I have a -S/ Session.vim file in my project and can't open it with vim as the following is ...
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Use “find” to select a zip file and deplace them with mv
First Im beginning on Linux,
I try to select zip files only and move them in an other folder, but it's not working :/
Please help Im completely loosed.
The code:
find . -type f -name "*.zip" | xargs ...
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Getting back a moved file from tmp
I used the following command to move my driver file from Downloads to tmp folder, however, after I ran this command the file disappeared:
mv ~/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz ~/tmp
Now ...
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Moving files into sorted folder based on the filename
So I have this folder of movies that looks like
Current
movie1 (1962).mkv
movie 2b (1993)
movie 2b (1993) cd1.mp4
movie 2b (1993) cd1.srt
movie 3 (2019).avi
movie 1942 (2012).mkv
And ...
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How do I rename files in a directory one-by-one in a loop following a specific pattern set by me?
#!/bin/bash
ls > ls_file.txt
#item="Variation of gm with constant Vgs and constant drain current bias-mod03lec05.mp4"
############## Above line is just a comment for testing purposes
for item ...
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Find files and rename and move to another directory
When I run the command
find dir_1 -type f -name 'f*'
I found 2 files there "file_11" and "file_22".
Now I want to move those files to another directory "dir_2" using -exec with the "find" command.
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Bash script automatitation name change using date
I'm new to the shell/bash area. I've created this little script to change a name using the date command. The idea is to get something like this
1.txt=>2020-02.txt
And it works, but I get the ...
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Moving files inside multiple directories to the root directroy of the folder structure
In this directory listing below I'm trying to move all 'example*.file' into the 'test' directory.
I've tried doing something like mv * ./test/ but that only moves the folders and not just the files,...
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Accidentally moved whole server into “/var/www/” directory
I was working on a project in the "/var/www/" directory...
I wanted to move all the files from "/tmp/project/" to "/var/www/html/" using command:
mv ./* /var/www/html
while I was in the "/tmp/...
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Moving files to a different folder, ignore the existing files
I want to move all the files from parent folder to child folder... and ignore the existing files in the child folder, i.e. if img1.jpg exists in both parent and child folder, it should not be replaced ...
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Files missing after using mv command
I ran
/$ sudo mv -f -i FileSystem/*
After using the command all my files are missing. Where my files have gone to?
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zero padding of file names
I want to do zero-padding for names of files. what should I do if not all images exist like 1.JPEG doesn't exist or 99.JPEG or 110.JPEG ?
$ for n in $(seq 9); do mv $n.JPEG 0$n.JPEG; done; mv: ...
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Rename all empty folders with `$ empty`
I have many folders that I have ended up with too many empties in the folder names and I need to remove all the empty and leave the folders with $1.empty
Of course my logic is flawed here as I am not ...
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How to remove end of file names?
I want to rename a lot of files like 1_16_video1.mp4?1578683110081 & 54_127_video7.mp4?168302 to 1_16_video1.mp4 & 54_127_video7.mp4.
How can I rename them?
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Are my files lost after I executed mv /parentdir/otherparentdir/somedir/* /parentdir/destdir/?
I was trying to move all the files in a dir to another dir. I got errors at the first 2 attempts but at 3rd attempt it appeared the command did succeed. However the source dir is now empty but the ...
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Files disappearing after mv command
I trying to learn how to move files around. I made some test files and directories to practice with. When I try to move a file from one directory to the other, the file just completely disappears.
I ...
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How to update timestamp when moving files
In source directory, I have multiple files which all has dot (.) to it.
So, when I move I can give like below
mv *.* /destination/
But my issue is I want to give timestamp to all the files in ...
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Moving files accidentally to an not existing directory erases files?
I moved all files from one directory using mv and accidentally made a typo in the target location path.
The system returned a message that the directory does not exists, but my files from source ...
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When moving a directory to another file system, and it runs out of space, are files removed?
Given /mnt/source/ and /mnt/target/ which are two different places / filesystems.
mv /mnt/source/dir /mnt/target/
It runs out of space part-way (and stops)
Imagining that /mnt/source/dir is full ...
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How to mv files one by one?
When mv is used between different storages, it first copies all files and then unlinks the source.
How to mv files one by one, so that each file is unlinked after being copied, and the folder ...
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stop ignore message N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.merge-error' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
When attempting to mv the file I get a permission denied. I am trying to fix the message I get when trying to update
N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.merge-error' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/'...
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mv: missing destination file operand
I am trying to install poweriso, but facing this error. I had successfully extracted the poweriso on the desktop,and found the following code as instruction for further installation-
sudo mv -v /home/...
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Why do I get 'X' and 'Y' are the same file when using mv, even though they are clearly NOT the same file?
I am attempting to move a file from one directory to another on a CIFS mounted file system using the command:
mv /mnt/development/Backup/NagiosServer/latest/* /mnt/development/Backup/NagiosServer/...
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mv error in destination file in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and my system does not use apt-get or yum,
I'm trying to install FDR on Ubuntu. whenever I want to install FDR4 in /usr/local with this:
mv ~/Downloads/fdr4 /usr/local/fdr4
but error occurs with message
mv: mising destination file operand
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Missing file after mv
Hope you can help me with this issue.
I did the following:
mv filename .foldername
after that the file is gone and a hidden folder foldername was created .foldername
when cd .foldername I got a ...
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move folder from mounted cifs to ntfs take ages
I'm running on Ubuntu 18.04 and have a network drive mounted via cifs.
When I try to copy a dir from that network drive the copying took ages (ubuntu says 596.523 hours).
Neither mv (shell) nor copy (...
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Why doesn’t `mv file /dir` move the file to a subdirectory of the current working directory?
I was in my /etc directory and typed the command
me@mylaptop:/etc$ sudo mv MyFile.conf /openvpn
I thought that would move the file into the directory openvpn which is a subdirectory of the /etc ...
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Copy file from Pi to USB
So I am trying to copy a file from my home pi directory to USB on my Pi zero as root using sudo mv command and it still says permission denied. I am a root user. How do I copy this file if I don't ...
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Install MV without installation [duplicate]
I have the problem that whenever I want to Install something, there is this lovely error:
/usr/sbin/update-initramfs: 158: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: mv: not found
I could trace this error back, ...
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Can I use a list of file names that I saved to file to have each file on the list copied/moved/deleted?
How can I use cp rm or mv commands to manipulate files saved to a list, for example one made like so:
ls Downloads/ | grep example > example.tmp
The point is to be able to view/edit the file list ...
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Use find to find a directory and move it to a different path
I have hundreds of thousands of files in hundreds of directories.
An example directory structure is
./main/foo1/bar/*
./main/foo2/bar/*
./main/foo3/bar/*
./main/foo1/ran/*
./main/foo2/ran/*
For ...
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Rename multiple files of different name and extensions with parent directory name
I'm trying to figure out how to rename multiple files (100s) that have different extensions to their respective sub directory name. Here is the structure:
Parentdir
|--subdir1
|---name1.txt
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No such file or directory?
Im installing SquirrelMail in Ubuntu Server 18.04. I got it from here:
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail/files/stable/1.4.22/squirrelmail-webmail-1.4.22.zip
Then I unzipped using ...
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How to move multiple folders to another directory? [duplicate]
How can I move multiple folders into another directory ? For example, I would like to move the folder 000/ 001/ 002/ to train/000/ train/002 train/003. Is there a simple command that I can use like
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How do you bulk move files into folders corresponding to the name of each file?
I have several movies in a folder.
For example:
~/Downloads/Movies/Movie A (1998).mkv
~/Downloads/Movies/Movie B (1999).mkv
~/Downloads/Movies/Movie C (2000).mkv
I would like to put each file ...
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Moving files that meet extension and size criteria to a different folder via terminal [duplicate]
Due to a series of unfortunate incidents, I lost all my data during a botched system update (noob here). I managed to use photorec to recover files to a specific folder "temp" on my desktop. I want to ...
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Moving 1M of files on 5M
Is there a command line to move 1M of files from a directory with 5M of files?
I tried:
sudo mv `ls | head -1000000` <destination>
But I get this message: -bash: /usr/bin/sudo: Argument list ...
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How do I move one directory to another in Ubuntu
For example, how would I move a directory called "menu" into the "data" directory? Also, I am using Ubuntu and I am new to all of this so I am unsure.
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Can't rename file using mv
Am trying a published solution to remove systemd-shim error after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 but get a bash syntax error as follows (you can see I tried different permutations of the same command in ...
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mv command - lost files - directory turned into a file
I am starting to learn about linux commands, and today i did something, that I can't find the solution nowhere !
I tried to move a file "test.txt" to the "Subfolder2", to do so, I entered the ...
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Error accessing a file no such file or directory (I want to rename it)
I am struggling to rename a file, I had a similar issue sometime ago but in that case I wanted to delete, this time I simply want to access it.
I have cleared the directory, so only this single file ...
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Running a mv command on large amount of data caused disappearance of other folders [closed]
I messed up by running a mv command on the entire contents of an old external drive to my Desktop without making a destination folder first.
I ran
sudo mv /my/external/path/* /home/myself/Desktop/
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How to move multiple files with rsync while showing progress?
I can move files with this command:
mv -t /mnt/hdd /home/me/movies/movie1.avi /home/me/movies/movie2.avi
The problem is, that it shows no progress at all, so I don't know if the operation is 1% done ...
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ls without parameters - No such File or Directory
while creating a backup of a Windows PC I encountered an odd File. I first discovered it while copying the parent backup where exactly the same error came up.
Note that I masked all [A-Za-z0-9] with ...
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mv command problem
I try to use the mv command, but it throws an error like this:
adi@LMToshi2 ~ $ mv ~/compass-icon-theme /usr/share/icons
mv: cannot move '/home/adi/compass-icon-theme' to '/usr/share/icons/compass-...
