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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How to copy a file in one directory and move it to the other?
So, I am currently in my lab6 folder. In that folder, I have a makefile that is very similar to the one I need in lab7. So, I just want to copy that makefile in lab6 and move it to lab7. My current directory is…
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Rename a file that begins with "-"
Well it looks like I got myself stuck. There's no GUI on this system as I have to PUTTY in. File begins with the "-" sign and I can't seem to escape out of it with \, " or '.
mv -output.txt output.txt
mv: invalid option -- 'o'
Try `mv --help' for…
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ubuntu mv file disappeared
On ubuntu, I have the following directory structure:
/var/www/html
I am in www and I decided to move a file from this directory to html. I executed the following:
mv myfile.iso /html
Now I cannot see the file. Apparently I did not use the command…
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Linux Bash Rename files
I got files like this:
./abc/woinewi.mp3
./def/mqwoifkwe.MP3
./ghi/ioqfnw.wmv
./xxx/powijfqiwj.WMV
./yyy/qjwdweo.Mp3
The sub-dir name is unique.I want to rename them by bash command or scipts to…
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Rename multiple mp3 files using track number from old name
I wanted to organize my mp3 files and rename them using the pattern track##.mp3 where ## is track number.
I need a regular expression that selects the track number, which is the first two characters in the old name.
Example:
01 - Album Artist -…
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Moved a file to another directory in Unix. File is no longer in the original directory, but never showed up in the destination directory. Why?
I am having a problem with something seemingly very simple in Unix. I used the following code to move a file to another directory:
mv genes.gtf ./ ../..
The file is no longer in the original directory, but it has not shown up in the destination…
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Linux mv command with time adding spaces
This is my bash script to copy a csv file to a new file that has the timestamp added to the end it is then copied to another server.
#!/bin/bash
timestamp=`date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`
ssh root@172.16.1.125 mv /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv…
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Moving files to a relative directory matching - spam handling
I am setting up a script to learn spam from a maildir folder ".LearnAsSpam"
After the spam is learnt, I'd like to move all spam to the ".Junk" folder for all users:
ie:
/home/vmail/domain1/user1/Maildir/.LearnAsSpam/cur/*…
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Remove zeros inside file name
I have this file name
1006_12_000123123_000023126.data
and I want this file name. I have arround 300000 files.
1006_12_123123_23126.png
I tried som of these solution, but they are for filename like 00002323.jpg
Bash command to remove leading zeros…
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mv command not working as intended on linux CENT/REDHAT OS
This is with respect to recent issue that has been faced by me. Suddenly post exection of a mv command Linux box went un-responsive on various front, below is the overall description of the issue that happened.
1) move command executed with /* in…
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UNIX command to move multiple files to multiple subdirectories?
I work in an X11 window on a MAC OS X machine. Now I have hundreds of files in one directory, each file name containing a substring such as "1970", "1971",..., "2014", etc. indicating that the file is for that year. Now I have just created…
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Cannot stat mv, file not found
could somebody please help me find the problem with this code? getting this error "mv: cannot stat '~Desktop/RecyclingBin/testtest' : No such file or directory. It does exist and it is in the location ~Desktop/RecyclingBin/testtest…
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BASH: batch rename files with infix
I have files '/my/file_{01...10}.mat' that I'd like to rename to '/my/file_ABC{01..10}.mat' such that 'file_01.mat' becomes 'file_ABC01.mat', 'file_02.mat' > 'file_ABC02.mat',... and so on.
I've found a number of ways to append strings in a script…
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Bash Scripting: "Dump" directory using mv - current directory
I'm writing a bash script that dumps a specified directory into a destination directory (or the current directory if no destination is specified.) The script works fine if the destination directory is specified, but when I try to use the current…
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Bash rename via FOR
How can i batch rename my files with specific command by mv?
find /opt/media/rec -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.mp4' -mmin +1 -exec basename {} \; | awk -F_ -v OFS="_"…
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