I have the following folder structure.

Service
|
-- App1
  |
  --- bin
  |
  --- file1
  |
  --- file2
|
--App2
  |
  --- bin
  |
  --- file1
  |
  --- file2
  |
  --- file3
|
--App3
  |
  --- bin
  |
  --- file1
  |
  --- file2

I'm looking to move files only from the root of App folders to their corresponding bin folders whilst preserving GIT history. So the end result should be:

Service
|
-- App1
  |
  --- bin
     |
      --- file1
     |
      --- file2
|
--App2
  |
  --- bin
     |
      --- file1
     |
      --- file2
     |
      --- file3
|
--App3
  |
  --- bin
     |
      --- file1
     |
      --- file2

I attempted the following...

#!/bin/bash

dir1="/c/Service"

subs=ls $dir1

for i in $subs; do
  git mv $dir1/$i/* $dir1/$i/bin/
done

...but see the following errors: *fatal: can not move directory into itself* *fatal: Invalid path '/c': No such file or directory* Any help appreciated.

I have a huge number of files spread across a large directory structure that have hidden control characters in their names. ls lists them as, e.g.: '614.7-4-F1-00-090-007-RozvadØ'$'\302\237'' RP1-List1.pdf' This eventually causes issues with rsync. What would be a clever way to rename those files by removing those characters? I think find -name '*[^[:print:]]*' will find all those files. Then sed 's/[^[:print:]]//g' should hopefully get rid of those so I am trying find -name '*[^[:print:]]*' -exec sh -c 'mv "$1" "$(echo "$1" | sed s/[^[:print:]]//g)"' _{} \; but it gives mv: cannot stat '': No such file or directory So I think this might be related to the quoting but I no longer have idea how to correct it. Or maybe, this is not even the correct way to do it.

If right now, I only had a bunch of files dumped into a single directory, is there a way that I could move the files into a folder based on a mapping file. For example: | | A | B | | - | - | - | | 1 | File Name | Folder Name | | 2 | abc | 123 | | 3 | def | 456 | | 4 | ghi | 789 | | 5 | jkl | 123 | | 6 | mno | 456 | is it possible to move file abc and jkl to folder 123 based on this mapping? I'm not familiar with coding; I really just want to know if it's doable. Thanks in advance!

I have an QNAP TS-210 NAS and it seems, that [there's a Debian Linux on board](http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/) . I've installed Midnight Commander there and have been using it successfully for years. Today I spotted something weird. I have to move a large collection of movies (around 130 GB) from one folder to anther. Movies are split into many subfolders. Whenever I enter any particular folder, select all files in MC and press F6 to move them to destination, everything is fine. But, when I attempt to move entire subfolder (destination has it as well, but files inside are different, so there is not overwrite in any case), process takes very, very long. It actually looks like my NAS would be doing a copy, instead of move of this file. Is this normal condition? When I'm doing the same operation on Windows, move process always is very, very fast, no matter, if I'm moving entire folder or only its contents.

I wrote a bash shell script for Linux to move files in a static folder according to parameters specified in a data file. I've reduced that script to a minimal reproducible example to demonstrate an issue I'm having with it:

#!/bin/bash
while IFS=" " read -r fldr matchStr
do
	perlExp=\'s/^/\\/home\\/test\\/alpha\\/"$fldr"\\//\'
	fullmatchStr=testfile\ -\ "$matchStr"\ -\ *.txt
	rename --verbose "$perlExp" ${fullmatchStr}
done < test.dat

*(Please note that I originally started out using mv instead of rename, and I'm fine with using either command.)* This script reads test.dat, which is a text file of the syntax:

folderName matchStr
...

A simple example of this test.dat file:

test001 *.foo.bar
test002 *.foo.baz
test003 bar.*.baz

***It is essential that wildcards are allowed in this data file and are supported by the script. Also, support for spaces within filenames is required.*** Examples of filenames of files to be moved:

testfile - linux.foo.bar - 10101010 10101010.txt
testfile - unix.foo.bar - 01010101 10101010.txt
testfile - ubuntu.foo.baz - 10101010 01010101.txt
testfile - debian.foo.baz - 10101010 00000000.txt
testfile - bar.linus.baz - 11111111 01010101.txt

Given the above test.dat file, those files need to be moved, respectively, to these folders:

/home/test/alpha/test001
/home/test/alpha/test001
/home/test/alpha/test002
/home/test/alpha/test002
/home/test/alpha/test003

I read several relevant QAs, including: - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77007/mv-cannot-stat-no-such-file-or-directory-in-shell-script - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8748831/when-do-we-need-curly-braces-around-shell-variables - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131766/why-does-my-shell-script-choke-on-whitespace-or-other-special-characters but I'm still not getting the results I desire. No errors are presented, but no files are moved. How can this piece of code be improved to make it work as desired?

What I'm trying to do is simply make this command

-shell
find . -name "*flac" -exec oggenc -q 7 {} \;

spit the oggs out into whatever folder that I choose. I've tried just putting ~/vorbis at the end of the command, but I get a predicate error:

find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate `-execdir'?

I've been through the "find manpage", and I understand that the {} at the end of -q 7 is there to find flac files. So this is throwing me for a loop. Anyone know what I have to add to that command so I can output oggs into chosen folder? Thanks for reading and helping. By the way, I did try:

-shell
find . -name "*flac" -exec oggenc -q 7 ~/vorbis {} \;

but that only spit the oggs into the folder with the flacs. Not a ~/vorbis folder. I'm trying to keep folder name and structure put output it into a folder of my choosing (~/vorbis). And I 'm not asking for a full script. I'm just simply asking for somebody to explain how I can get what I'm trying to achieve. Thank you!

Here's a command to move all files whose *name* begin with 0 into a folder called zero : mv * zero **Question**: What is a command for moving all files whose *contents* begin with 0 into a folder called zero? Hopefully, there is a short command doing that also. I know that the first character of the contents of a file is given by head -c 1 filename.

How to move all mkv files from the root of the media folder to own subfolder for each mkv file, with the same name as mkv filename beside .mkv extension on the end. Example home/incoming/media/ is the media folder where mkv files reside in the root, files naming examples Ibica.festival.2020.mkv in the root should get folder home/incoming/media/Ibica.festival/Ibica.festival.2020.mkv I've got around 300 files, some files where with the Chinese names and some where with Russian Cyrillic if that changes situation, at all. File attribute and dates should be detained in the new folder. I tried and I had some errors and some success with the command find . -name ".mkv" -exec sh -c 'mkdir "${1%.}" ; mv "$1" "${1%.*}" ' _ {} \; – Lots of files where moved some where not, but how would I include subtitles and info files which carry the same name as mkv file like Ibica.festival.2020.mkv srt file would be Ibica.festival.2020.en.srt and the info file would be Ibica.festival.2020.en.info ///media/ /Ibica.festival.2020.mkv /Ibica.festival.2020.hr.srt /Ibica.festival.2020.sr.srt /Ibica.festival.2020.br.srt /Ibica.festival.2020.info ///media/ /exit festival 2019.mkv /exit festival 2019.hr.srt /exit festival 2019.sr.srt /exit festival 2019.en.srt /exit festival 2019.info Should be moved to ///media/ /Ibica.festival.2020/ /Ibica.festival.2020.mkv /Ibica.festival.2020.hr.srt /Ibica.festival.2020.sr.srt /Ibica.festival.2020.br.srt /Ibica.festival.2020.info ///media/ /exit festival 2019/ /exit festival 2019.mkv /exit festival 2019.hr.srt /exit festival 2019.sr.srt /exit festival 2019.en.srt /exit festival 2019.info

I recently upgraded Thunderbird to version 115.0.1 and since then, the MOVE TO dropdown doesn't work when I am reading an e-mail. I am referring to this option: When I browse my e-mails (without opening the mail itself), and I use this dropdown, the e-mail that is selected will move to the chosen folder just fine. However, when I open a particular e-mail to read, then the functionality breaks down. The dropdown is still there, and I can still select a folder to move the e-mail to, but it doesn't do anything. I looked at the log, and this error is produced when selecting a folder to move the mail into: > console.error: "An error occurred executing the cmd_moveMessage > command: [Exception... \"Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 > (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIMsgDBView.doCommandWithFolder]\" > nsresult: \"0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)\" location: \"JS > frame :: chrome://messenger/content/mailCommon.js :: cmd_moveMessage > :: line 167\" data: no]" I am using POP3.

I want to move all directories in the current directory that are below a certain size Here, I've managed to do a selection:

for dir in *
do
    if [[ $(du -s "$dir" | awk '{print $1}') -le 50000 ]]
    then
      ls -l "$dir"
    fi
done

I now figured I should use dirname to get the directory, but somehow it complains no matter what I do;) Do we have a neat way to do this?;)

I have a directory containing 101695 files ranging from img001.jpg to img101693.jpg and I want to move every 100th image to another directory. I have found some similar posts such as https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59089/how-to-copy-every-4th-file-in-a-folder but those assume that the number of digits in the serial is the same in all files so my range would need to start with img000001.jpg Is there a way to do this or do I need to modify my file names so that they all have the same number of characters in the serial?

I have file /some/foo which is a plain text file. I can edit it with vim and I can cat something else to it. But whenever I try to automate the editing process with sed, it says sed: cannot move '/some/sedGl29Uj': Device or resource busy I tried redirecting sed's output to a temporary file and cat, it's OK. But if I try to move the temporary file onto it, it will say root@localhost:/some # mv tmp foo mv: Device or resource busy I'm quite concerned why vim and cat can write the file but mv can't. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. /some is a subfolder of / (root mount point, ext4).

Say the directory you want to move has absolute path DIR. A case where it is NOT safe: that directory has either - absolute path symlinks to within DIR itself. For instance DIR/link -> /PATH/TO/DIR/file. EDIT: as pointed out in a comment below, this should still be safe. - relative path symlinks to outside DIR. For instance DIR/link -> ../../other_dir/file. Is there a tool that checks whether it's safe to move a directory and replace it with a symlink?

I have a directory (currdir) with 24000 images on a CentOS/cPanel server. I want to split this directory by moving images from this directory into other directories (or sub-directories inside currdir) based on image dates. How to make it happen?

Attempted to move all files and directories not ending with .srt to the parent directory by using these commands:

shopt -s extglob
mv !(*.srt) ..

Checked dir contents with ls and everything looked correct, only .srt files remaining:

abc.srt xyz.srt 123.srt etc.srt

When I went up a directory to check the contents, the sub-directory I was just in was not there and only about half the files were moved to the parent directory. mv threw no errors during the operation. I've tried recursively searching for the missing directory from the root of my system (fd -H 'missingfile' /) but nothing is showing up. What happened to my files? Did the pattern matching result in renaming and overwriting instead of the intended move?

Sorry if it sounds confusing, but this is not a biology inquiry. I'm planning to switch to Linux, but I have a few questions need answered. If a single monitor is mirrored like described in this link , then will we see the pointer onscreen move similarly to, or contrarily to our physical mouse-hand movement? In case it is reversed, is there any way to make the mouse move like in normal setups while keeping the screen mirrored?

I am trying to copy my files from ssd to external hdd using linux live boot. The command I'm writing is: root@ubuntu:/media/ubuntu/4bd92f4b-6b48-4f4a-83ad-9d82d3be488b/home/pegasus# tar cf - Downloads | ( cd /media/ubuntu/Seagate Backup Plus/Downloads; tar xvf -) But the problems is all directories aren't getting copied into the hdd. And no files of downloads are getting copied. How can I debug it? How can I use to copy everything from Download directory of my ssd to external hdd using tar? Files that should be copied: Files that are getting copied:

I have several files like these: 2020.001.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.001.03.04.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.002.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.003.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.004.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.004.05.06.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.005.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.006.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac ... 2020.366.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac The files are year.day.hour1.hour2... The important parameters are the year and day. The day goes from 001 to 366 (or 365). What I want is to organize my files like this (folder and files). So create the folder and move the respective files into it: 2020.001.003 - 2020.001.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.001.03.04.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.002.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.003.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.004.006 - 2020.004.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.004.05.06.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.005.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac 2020.006.00.01.pcc1_TBTZ_TBTZ_1.0-3.0.sac and so on until finishing the files in day 366 What I did (which does not work as I want): for file in *.sac do year=echo "$file" | awk -F"." '{print $1}' day=echo "$file" | awk -F"." '{print $2}' dayi=$day dayf="366" # # Moving every three day files delta=2 x1=$dayi x2=$(echo "$x1+$delta" | bc) if [ $x1 -lt $x2 ] then echo $x1 $x2 dir=$(echo "$year"."$x1"."$x2") mkdir $dir x1=$(( x1+3)) x2=$(( x1+delta)) fi done As a result the code is creating folders like: 2020.001.3 2020.002.4 2020.003.5 ... Basically it is creating folders that I do not need. Also I still do not know how to move the files into the folders. Thanks for your help.

I have thousands of text files called file.txt. Because they all share the same name I cannot move them to the same folder without them overwriting. I need a command that will locate all of the file.txt files that are within thousands of directories and subdirectories, append the full path name to the end of the file name and then copied to a specified folder leaving the original where it was. example: from: file.txt to: a/123/file.txt (i know / cant be used in a file name so hyphens or underscores will work, unless there is a visually more appropriate replacement) Also, the command would need to ignore case as some are file.txt and some are File.txt as well have an optional 'S' on the end (file.txt or files.txt). During the renaming, I am hoping the path can be appended as is, without changing case as the directory/subdirectory names are randomized (example: a/adgDGeRddsdvvsdGSD/[fF]ile[s].txt Thanks!

When I select multiple files within ranger (using ` or V`), how do I move these selected files to another directory? I've tried to use dd and pp, but this only moves the file that's currently highlighted.