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 of homedir one directory up for each user?
Thanks for the help.
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 stopped working.
How shall I rename by libc.a back. Without it, the system hardly functions sanely :(
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 already exists so that pic1.jpeg becomes something like pic1_2.jpeg?
I could write my own python script but there has to be something like this out there so I can do:
find . -type f -name *.jpg -exec mvsafe '{}' /targetpath/ \;
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 either in csv or any other text format.
What I need to do is run a bash script and move or copy the files that are listed in the text file to another directory.
Is there an easy way of doing this? Any suggestions or resources would be greatly appreciated.
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 recursively up one level. Let's say I have folder foo, and a folder bar inside it. Bar has a mess of files and folders, including dot files and folders. How do I move everything in bar to the foo level?
If foo is empty, I simply move bar one level above, delete foo and rename bar into foo. Part of the problem is that I can't figure out what mv's wildcard for "everything including dots" is. A part of this question is this - is there an in-depth discussion of the wildcards that cp and mv commands use somewhere (googling this only brings very basic tutorials).