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macourtney7
Asked: 2017-01-31 09:38:30 +0800 CST

What is the easiest method to move files into current directory in terminal? [duplicate]

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I was wondering if there was a cleaner method to move files into the current directory than this:

mv path/to/file ../current_directory

If I wanted to move a file to the directory above I could go:

mv file ..

Is there a way to represent the current directory?

command-line

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The current directory is ., so you can use:

    mv path/to/file .
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  2. "PWD" is the environment variable for current directory. So, you can do :

    mv path/to/file $PWD/

    You can test this yourself, for example :

    cd /tmp
touch test-file.txt
mkdir /tmp/test-dir
cd test-dir
echo $PWD
mv /tmp/test-file.txt $PWD/
ls -la $PWD/
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