Questions tagged [mv]
Tag for questions about the terminal command "mv" to move and rename files.
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How do I get back files after "mv * .*"?
I hid some files using the command:
mv * .*
but now I am unable to find them. I tried using:
mv .* *
but nothing happened (an error was shown). If I run:
ls -la
it's showing:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 ...
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How to move several folders using double wildcard?
I am trying to move all the folders that have the digit 1 in between (glove.6B.60d.txt) and (model)
mv "./*.txt)(1)(m*" "/home/e1"
but I get the error message
mv: cannot stat './*....
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Writing a script to rename and move files
Current work server has images arranged in the following folder structure:
.
└── Plans
├── Area 1
│ ├── Location 12.jpg
│ ├── Location 34.jpg
│ └── Location 37.jpg
└── Area 2
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Files and folders disappearing after using mv
Hi firstly I have looked through other questions similar to mine and I couldn't find relevant answers to me.
Running Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS Command Line
In my home directory I have 2 folders
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world
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Cannot move Linux Wifi Driver into the specific directory
I am currently trying to put the driver's folder into the WiFi directory but it is giving me a error every time I execute it.
The instructions on the website are super vague on what to do step by step
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Interrupt `mv` command by ctrl+c, and disk space is lost
To transfer large amount of data, I used mv from the first HDD called /KRX to other HDD called /data_tmp.
But I interrupted the mv process using Ctrl+C, and I fill /KRX with other data.
Then when I ...
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When moving all files but-one using mv, how do you escape filenames with dashes?
In How to move all files in current folder to subfolder?, the solution to moving all files from a folder but one is:
mv (!dontmovethis) /new/path/
When trying to move a file that includes a dash, a ...
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How to find and move files between certain dates? [duplicate]
I have two repertories named 'test1' and 'test2' with multiples files with .jpg or .mp3 extensions.
I want to find and move all files between 22-juin-2016 and 21-September-2018 to a new folder called '...
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Use the '*' in shell script
I am trying to run a command example:
sudo mv /home/vaishnavi/Downloads/*.ttc /home/vaishnavi/Downloads/*.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/ms_fonts/
It works fine in the terminal, but when I try to add ...
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How can i move multiple files to folder with same name
I have multiple files like this:
round3-bcF_01_bcR_01.R1.fastq
round3-bcF_01_bcR_01.R2.fastq
round4-bcF_01_bcR_01.R1.fastq
round4-bcF_01_bcR_01.R2.fastq
round3-bcF_01_bcR_02.R1.fastq
round3-...
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I need help simultaneously moving the same file type in multiple folder from one subdirectory to another
Example:
I have 3 folders A, B, C
in each folder(A, B, C) there is a subdirectory called T1.
In this subdirectory called T1, there is a file name called T1.nii.gz.
I want to simultaneously move with ...
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mv: missing destination file operand after with grep
Kia ora,
I have a build script where I do a bunch of file operations and if they succeed, I print stuff to stdout as part of a report generated for the build. However I am getting the error "mv: ...
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Device or Resource busy when trying to use mv
I am attempting to recover from finger problems where some data was moved to the wrong place when using Ubuntu 20.04. Below are my attempted command and the result.
jgossage@JFGPER:/media/jgossage$ mv ...
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Command to move a file to a directory even if the directory is not present
Is there a way to move file to a new directory without explicitly creating the directory using mkdir command and then move the file using mv
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How do I move all files from one folder to a subfolder except .html file using the command line?
I would like to know how can I move all files from folder-A to folder-A's sub-folder except .html file with a command line.
Suppose I am in dist folder and there are 50 files and 5 folders. Now I ...
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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
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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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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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