Why Error while moving a file from the directory1 to a directory2 in linux?

Question

Getting an error like this while moving one file from one directory to another directory inside it:

mv: cannot stat '/Home/Documents/liza_susan/org_chart.html': No such file or directory

My linux command is:

 mv /Home/Documents/liza_susan/org_chart.html Home/Documents/liza_susan/task

But the error is showing no such file or directory

see this image.. I want to move this org_chart.html file from liza_susan directory to task directory in liza_susan directory

In Linux file and directory names are case sensitive. Try `/home`instead of `/Home`. Check the names of the other directories and of the file, too. — Thomas Stets, Aug 23 '18 at 04:49
Stack Overflow is a site for programming and development questions. This question appears to be off-topic because it is not about programming or development. See [What topics can I ask about here](http://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic) in the Help Center. Perhaps [Super User](http://superuser.com/) or [Unix & Linux Stack Exchange](http://unix.stackexchange.com/) would be a better place to ask. — jww, Aug 23 '18 at 04:54
Use a terminal and shell commands, including `pwd`, `ls`, `stat`, `mv`. Be aware of [globbing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)) so see [glob(7)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/glob.7.html). Your home directory is probably not `/Home` but something like `/home/liza`. Try `echo ~` and `echo $HOME` to find out — Basile Starynkevitch, Aug 23 '18 at 05:06
Please let us Google that for you... [mv: cannot stat No such file or directory in shell script](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/77007/56041), [File exists but mv errors out with: “mv: cannot stat ‘file.tar.gz’: No such file or directory”](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/222793/56041), [mv: cannot stat with *](https://askubuntu.com/q/164497), [mv: cannot stat error](https://stackoverflow.com/q/34091346/608639), [mv: cannot stat error : No such file or directory error](https://stackoverflow.com/q/12729784/608639), etc. — jww, Aug 23 '18 at 05:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

2

This error means that /Home/Documents/liza_susan/org_chart.html does not exist. Are you sure the path is correct?

A couple of guesses:

/home/*USERNAME_HERE*/Documents/liza_susan/org_chart.html, or
/home/liza_susan/Documents/org_chart.html
~/liza_susan/Documents/org_chart.html

Update

Do this:

cd ~
pwd
Use this for your mv command (making sure you take care about case-sensitivity`)

Update 2

You can do this to avoid the /home trouble

cd ~
mv Documents/liza_susan/org_chart.html Documents/liza_susan/task

or even

cd ~/Documents/liza_susan
mv org_chart.html task

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

1
1

answered Aug 23 '18 at 04:49

tymtam

31,798
8
86
126

What do you see when you do `ls -la /Home/Documents/`? – tymtam Aug 23 '18 at 05:00
ls: cannot access '/Home/Documents/': No such file or directory – liza Aug 23 '18 at 05:02
1

The thing is that because the file browser shows "Home" as the left most word it doesn't mean it's "/Home" – tymtam Aug 23 '18 at 05:02
1

@liza Please try `cd ~; pwd` to find your home folder – tymtam Aug 23 '18 at 05:07
Than your command is `mv /home/stunntech/Documents/liza_susan/org_chart.html /home/stunntech/Documents/liza_susan/task` – tymtam Aug 23 '18 at 05:15
mv: cannot stat '/home/stunntech/Documents/liza_susan/org_chart.html': No such file or directory – liza Aug 23 '18 at 05:17
what files do you see if you do `cd ~` and then `ls -la`. Is there a `Documents` folder there? – tymtam Aug 23 '18 at 05:19
What can you see when you do `ls -al /home` – tymtam Aug 23 '18 at 05:20
What about `cd ~`, `cd Documents`, `ls -al`? Is there `liza_susan` folder? – tymtam Aug 23 '18 at 05:21
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/178579/discussion-between-tymtam-and-liza). – tymtam Aug 23 '18 at 05:22

Why Error while moving a file from the directory1 to a directory2 in linux?

1 Answers1

Update

Update 2