mv is the Unix command to rename or move a file or directory.
mv is the Unix command to rename or move a file or directory.
Syntax:
mv - move (rename) files
Examples:
mv /my/dir /my/other/dir
References:
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Questions tagged [mv]
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Removing part of a filename with mv
How would I rename all -m.css files to .css with the shell utility mv?
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Mercurial hg mv doesn't move all files
Probably an easy one but I haven't dug up anything with the usual search queries so I thought I'd ask here. Basically I'm trying to rearrange my repo; for example:
mkdir test
hg mv DirectoryOfStuff test/
Mercurial moves most of the contents but it…
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git: mv command
i've read that the mv command is basically the same as
$ mv README.txt README
$ git rm README.txt
$ git add README
just to be sure, is it exactly the same if i do it this way:
$ git rm --cached README.txt
# [rename file using right click rename]
$…
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Replace a folder with another folder using mv (without deleting target folder first)
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 the web.
If /path/to/ only contains directory, the…
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How to emulate cp and mv --parent on osx
Osx mv and cp does not have the --parents option, so how does one emulate it ?
I.e. mv x/y/a.txt s/x/y/a.txt when s is empty gives a no directory found error unless one does a mkdir first which is rather cumbersome when trying to do this did…
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Removing gulp.src files after gulp.dest?
I have a scenario where a client of mine wants to drop LESS files into a src directory (via FTP), and for them to be automatically outputted as CSS to a build directory. For each LESS file, once its resultant CSS file is created, it should be…
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Remove a list of words from filename
I am trying to remove a list of specific words from all my files with a certain directory and replace them with nothing.
So:
This Awesome Content 720p BLAH FOO BANG OOO - 30.9.2013.mp4
Becomes:
This Awesome Content - 30.9.2013.mp4
Now the…
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Bash script/command to bulk remove "@2x" from filename (retina image -> normal)
How do I rename a bulk of files in a bash command or script, to remove iOS's retina indicator (@2x)?
I've already resized them, but the resize software isn't smart on renaming the output file.
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Moving large number of large files in git repository
My repository has large number of large files.
They are mostly data (text).
Sometimes, I need to move these files to another location due to refactoring or packaging.
I use git mv command to "rename" the path of the files, but it seems inefficient…
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How to use mv command to rename multiple files in unix?
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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Alternative for AWK use
I'd love to have a more elegant solution for a mass rename of files, as shown below. Files were of format DEV_XYZ_TIMESTAMP.dat and we needed them as T-XYZ-TIMESTAMP.dat.
In the end, I copied them all (to be on the same side) into renamed folder:
ls…
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find -exec mv tells me No such file or directory
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: /Users/medialab/old_foo: No such file or directory
why is find…
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shell script mv is throwing unhelpful error "No such file or directory" even though i see it
I need to use a shell script to move all files in a directory into another directory. I manually did this without a problem and now scripting it is giving me an error on the mv command.
Inside the directory I want to move files out of are 2…
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Why does the output from my script say "mv: command not found" but not when I run it on the shell directly?
I wrote a small script that should rename some files in a directory for me.
#!/bin/bash
a=1
for i in *.jpg ; do
new=$(printf "%04d.jpg" "$a")
mv "$i" "$new"
let a=a+1
done
#end of file
After running the script is says…
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Bash: passing a variable to mv command option
--Bash 4.1.17 (running with Cygwin)
Hello, I am trying to pass the date into the --suffix option on the move (mv) command. I am able to pass in a simple string (like my name) but unable to pass in the date. If you run the script below you will see…
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