Top "Mv" questions

Moving Files and Folders Accidentally to Non-existent Places

I often do the command such as: mv folder $something_that_does_not_exist mv files* $something_that_does_not_…

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Bash mv not a directory

I have part of my script that goes like this: while read line do code=`echo ${line} | awk '{print $1}…

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mv command goes crazy

Here is the script and I have singled out the block that I believe is causing the recent problem mv …

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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 …

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move or copy a file if that file exists?

I am trying to run a command mv /var/www/my_folder/reports.html /tmp/ it is running properly. But …

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How to use the mv command in Python with subprocess

I have a lot of files in /home/somedir/subdir/ and I'm trying to move them all up to /home/…

python unix subprocess stat mv

Find files, rename in place unix bash

This should be relatively trivial but I have been trying for some time without much luck. I have a directory, …

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How to pass a variable to the mv command to rename a file text with spaces and the variable's text in a bash (.sh) file

I create a variable and store the day, date & time in it: NOW=$(date "+%a %d/%m/%Y% %H:%…

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Moving a file and adding the date to the filename

#!/bin/bash while read server <&3; do #read server names into the while loop if [[ ! $server =~ [^[:space:]] ]] ; then #empty …

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mv: invalid option -- '0'

How can I rename files with "-" in front of the filename, for example: "-0001.jpg" Everyime I try to …

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