mv is a move/rename file in Linux
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Permission denied with mv under apache
I have a bash cgi script called by apache which should move one file in /var/www/html to another in the same directory. I've set up the relevant permissions with selinux (e.g. chcon to ...
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Remote rename of a file on Samba share via Bash script
I'm running a Bash script under Cygwin, but this question applies more broadly.
I have a remote file: //someremoteserver/somefile.db
That "//" path is under Cygwin--it's essentially a UNC pathname ...
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move files from one device to another
I am trying to automate a remote backup on our centOS server, I run the current command :
nice -n 10 mv -vfb /media/localbackup/* /media/remotebackup/
however when this is ran I get the following ...
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mv cause file missing, how can I find them back
my server : centos 6 with xen4
the vm352 crashed, so I want to reinstall OS for this vps,
before this , I backup my important files to other lvm ( vm492_img )
but when reinstalled, I moved files ...
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Linux directory moved
a directory was moved with mv command in a Linux box, what logs should be looked at for such action? in root bash_history i can see the command was used, unfortunatly bash_history was not recording ...
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Error when using mv
I am receiving an error when trying to mv some files that really doesn't make sense. I receive this error:
mv: cannot move `thatDir' to a subdirectory of itself, ...
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Can't move large files, always get Input/output error after some time
I want to move a large file (hdd of a paralells vm, 81G) from one hd to another. After some time I get the error message: Input/output error. What can I do to move the file?
I checked source and ...
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Rename tons of files
How can I rename all the files with a pattern like this:
thumb_f318d8a580ca5717d686a323b6c2ca0d.jpg0000777
thumb_f18d8aup90ca5717d686a323b6c2c5uh.jpg0000777
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linux shell script: how to move all sub folders with a given name?
I'd like to move all sub-folders starting with a given suffix (Blah_ in the example) into an other directory using a linux bash script. Here's what the script looks like:
srcDir="/home/me/"
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Linux (mv or cp) specific files from a text list of files?
I have a directory of many files, something like 50,000 pdf's and other files on a server. I need to move specific ones to another directory. I can generate a list of the files that need to be moved ...
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How to mass move files one directory up
I have about 200 directories in /home/. The problem is that they all exist in this way:
/home/{user}/homedir/
While it should just be:
/home/{user}/
With what command can I mass move all content ...
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Delete all files via mv date?
Everyday new audio files are created in dir1.
Sometime I move (mv) some files from dir1 to dir2
I want to delete all the files in dir2 that was moved before 20th June
Is this possible?
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How to rename libc.a back
I am working on AIX 6.1 and inadvertently renamed /usr/lib/libc.a to usr/lib/libc.a_ Just as I renamed I realized my stupid mistake. Almost all of the commands mv, cp, ftp etc ( except cd ) have ...
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Command: move all files inside a directory to another directory (including hidden files)?
I tried to move all files inside a directory to another directory like this:
$ mv /directory_one/* /directory
However, the hidden files (such as .htaccess) in /directory_one won't be moved.
What ...
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How to recursively move all files (including hidden) in a subfolder into a parent folder in *nix?
This is a bit of an embarrassing question, but I have to admit that this late in my career I still have questions about the mv command.
I frequently have this problem: I need to move all files ...
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*nix behavor, when overwriting a file that's open by another process using mv
Will the other process be able to finish reading the old file even though it's been replaced?
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What's faster for copying files from one drive to another? [closed]
Running linux. I have two identical drives mounted on the same machine. What is faster CP, MV, or RSYNC? Why is one faster than the other? Are there any faster alternatives?
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used mv command and my whole filesystem is missing
Alright, so I was in /var/www/forum/newrelease
What I wanted to do was copy all of the files in newrelease to the directory forum, so I was thinking the command mv /* ../* would work, but now ...
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File move in Perl that stops the current script?
how can I do this mv ($file $new_file/$1) or die("Errors 2");
so it would stop the script in terminal if the file is not found?
otherwise it keeps repeating and repeating and I need to restart putty ...
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copy and rename files
Here are my access logs those I want to backup.
/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/log/httpd/access_log.1
/var/log/httpd/access_log.2
/var/log/httpd/access_log.3
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I want to copy all these files but ...
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cannot move to a subdirectory of itself
I have 2 folders:
/home/sphinx/articlesdb/
and:
/home/sphinx/tmp/articlesdb/
I want to move and overwrite all of the files from tmp into the main folder.
I am currently using:
mv -f ...
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mv, rename if exists
I need to assemble a lot of images into one directory. Many of those images have the same file names.
Is there some safe version of mv that will automatically rename files if the target filename ...
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Cannot move folder to a subdirectoy of itself - What's going on?
O.K I am trying to do the following very simple command and it is failing as follows...
mv '/home/admin/Downloads/folder1' '/home/admin/MyLibrary/MyVideos/TV/folder1/'
mv: cannot move ...
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mass mv using find?
there are a bunch of filename.gif scattered in /home/ directories. I want all the filename.gif replaced by a /home/shared/filename_default.gif.
I tried something like
find /home/ -name ...
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linux mv command weirdness
can anyone tell me why when I type:
mv -f ./tmp/members ./
I get:
mv: cannot move `./tmp/members' to a subdirectory of itself, `./members'
And moreover the correct way to move this directory?
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mv directory to overwrite another
I may be going bonkers here, but I'm trying to move a directory to a new location, overwriting the contents (on Linux, using bash).
Everytime I try it, it responds with "mv: cannot move `./src' to a ...
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How can I recursively change the case of files and folders under bash
I have some files and folders that are all in uppercase that I want to rename to their lowercase equivalent. What would be the best way to go about doing this in bash on a Linux system?
As an example ...
