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Blankman
Asked: 2011-02-07 18:14:56 +0800 CST

Move files from subfolder to current folder

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Say my files on a Ubuntu server are like: /folder1/folder2/

I am in folder1 currently, and I want to move all files/folders (recursive) from folder2 to the current folder.

How can I do this?

bash shell

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    shorter version:

    mv folder2/* .
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  2. mv /folder1/folder2/* /folder1/

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  3. there is a caveat to be aware of if you have invisible files (starting with '.') in your folder. dotglob (*) won't expand (and mv won't move) invisible files unless you change it's behaviour with shopt. shopt -s dotglob to expand invisible files and shopt -u dotglob to switch back to default.

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  4. recursively move files to current folder:

    find -type f -exec mv -v {} . \;

    be aware that you won't be overwriting existing files.

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