mv Questions
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Is there a simple way to move all the files in a directory up to its parent directory then delete the directory?
Use Case
I'm doing a zip extraction and the source zip contains a root f...
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I tried to deploy my personal blog website to my remote server recently. When I tried to move a few files and directories to another place by executing mv, some unexpected errors happened. The comm...
Andraandrade asked 19/3, 2015 at 1:58
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I would like to rename/move a project subtree in Git moving it from
/project/xyz
to
/components/xyz
If I use a plain git mv project components, then all the commit history for the xyz projec...
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I want to rename files in the format:
img_MM-DD-YY_XX.jpg
img_MM-DD-YY_XXX.jpg
to:
newyears_YYYY-MM-DD_XXX.jpg
Where:
YYYY = year
MM = month
DD = day
XXX or XX = photo number
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So, if I'm in my home directory and I want to move foo.c to ~/bar/baz/foo.c , but those directories don't exist, is there some way to have those directories automatically created, so that you would...
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As a rather novice Linux user, I can't seem to find how to do this.
I am trying to move unique files all in one directory into another directory.
Example:
$ ls
vehicle car.txt bicycle.txt airplane...
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I'm facing this simple task but, I'm also wondering about what's the easiest and short way to do it.
My proposal is move a given number of random files from a directory to another. This task is par...
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What is the right way to undo a rename in git, like:
git mv file1 file2
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I am trying to build an app which can list some values from the database and modify, add, delete if necessary using Spring 4 and i receive the following error(only if the "@Controller" annotation i...
Propel asked 29/4, 2015 at 16:25
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I am wondering - how can I move all the files in a directory except those files in a specific directory (as 'mv' does not have a '--exclude' option)?
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I have several folders, each with between 15,000 and 40,000 photos. I want each of these to be split into sub folders - each with 2,000 files in them.
What is a quick way to do this that will crea...
Efficient asked 18/3, 2015 at 7:21
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I have this directory called "mock", which contains 3 directories. I am trying to copy all the items from "mock" directory into the "projweek" directory using th...
Wat asked 13/12, 2015 at 17:39
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I am trying to run a command
mv /var/www/my_folder/reports.html /tmp/
it is running properly. But I want to put a condition like if that file exists then only run the command. Is there an...
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How can I rewrite history so that all files, except the ones I already moved, are in a subdirectory?
I have a project under git. One day I moved all project files from current directory to foo/bar/ under the project. I did it using git mv. Then I added some more files and did some changes to alrea...
Indiscriminate asked 28/10, 2010 at 12:18
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I am composing a script to process 20 files. All of them located in different directories. I have partial file name.
In log directory, File1_Date_time.err change to File1__Date_time_orig.err
cd ...
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if I run:
mkdir -p "$HOME"/old_foo && find "$HOME" -type d -name "*foo" -exec mv -vi {} "$HOME"/new_foo \;
I get:
/Users/medialab/old_foo -> /Users/medialab/new_foo
but also:
find: ...
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I have a lot of files in /home/somedir/subdir/ and I'm trying to move them all up to /home/somedir programmatically.
right now I have this:
subprocess.call(["mv", "/home/somedir/subdir/*", "somed...
Antarctica asked 15/2, 2014 at 23:9
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I want to use mv to rename a file:
mv src.txt dest.txt
If the file doesn't exist, I get an error:
mv: cannot stat ‘src.txt’: No such file or directory
How do I use mv only if the file already exi...
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I have a bash script that uses the rename command as follows:
sudo rename 's/^(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})/Date-$1-$2-$3__Time-$4:$5:$6/' 2019*
According to the rename man page the c...
Fiann asked 11/7, 2019 at 3:29
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I am trying to get a directory to replace an existing folder but can't get it done with mv - I believe there's a way and I just don't know it (yet). Even after consulting the man page and searching...
Contraction asked 3/3, 2019 at 17:14
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I'm trying to rename a bunch of files which contain spaces in them, getting rid of the spaces. I thought I found the correct bash command:
for f in *.txt; do mv \"$f\" ${f/ /}; done
However, thi...
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I moved a file using git mv. Now I would like to do a diff on the new file to compare it with the old file (with the old, now non-existent name).
How do I do this?
Patsy asked 20/4, 2011 at 12:41
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Angular 1.x (AngularJS) was following more or less the MV* design principle because of its two-way data binding functionality.
Angular2 is adopting a component-based UI, a concept that might be fa...
Misfortune asked 30/4, 2016 at 4:5
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I am trying to rename multiple files with extension xyz[n] to extension xyz
example :
mv *.xyz[1] to *.xyz
but the error is coming as - " *.xyz No such file or directory"
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