Moving files in Google Colab

Question

I have I bunch of files in a directory, named like this:

cat.10171.jpg cat.12421.jpg cat.3421.jpg

I want to move part of them to another directory using this from Colab notebook:

!mv cat.{0..499}.jpg /content/train

I have an error:

mv: cannot stat 'cat.{0..499}.jpg': No such file or directory

Any ideas how to do this and what is the reason?

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '18 at 12:12

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This also worked for me:

shutil.move("path/to/current/file", "path/to/new/destination/for/file")

So:

shutil.move("/content/cat.10171.jpg", "/content/train")

answered Dec 15 '18 at 12:12

Avocano

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score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '20 at 23:58

I have an idea , you don't need to move them to colab because after some hours , Colab will restart automatic and all data will removed , so what's solution for that ? Simply, you can copy them to colab from Drive but How can i do that ? Here's solution for that :

!cp "/content/drive/My Drive/*.jpg" "/content/train"

BUt if you still want to move them not copy , Here's solution for that :

!mv "/content/drive/My Drive/*.jpg" "/content/train"

Conclusion , " cp " for copy and " mv " for move

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 28 '20 at 21:21

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!mv "/content/P14-Convolutional-Neural-Networks.zip" "/content/drive/My Drive/U/señales/colab/"

you have to use "" to make it readable

edited Jan 28 '20 at 21:21

camille

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answered Jan 28 '20 at 20:44

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 01 '18 at 22:09

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Try this

!bash -c 'mv cat.{0..499}.jpg /content/train'

answered Jul 01 '18 at 22:09

Robin Green

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Aug 26 '20 at 09:00

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!bash -c 'cp /content/gdrive/My\ Drive/Colab\ Notebooks/dataset/brain_tumor_dataset/train/Y{41..120}.JPG /content/gdrive/My\ Drive/Colab\ Notebooks/dataset/brain_tumor_dataset/train/yes/'

edited Aug 26 '20 at 09:00

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answered Aug 26 '20 at 08:25

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Moving files in Google Colab

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