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Questions - mv

mv confusion: I deleted /usr/local/bin by following the socketxp guide, but only the first time around

I was following the SocketXP Agent Download & Setup, and on the very first step I am asked to run the following command: curl -O https://portal.socketxp.com/download/linux/socketxp && chm...
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Lillebo

linux

bin

mv

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In Linux you can use mv also to rename files. To prevent a mistake like yours, always add a / at the end of a path that you want to move something into: sudo mv test /usr/local/bin/ This would have be...
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cyberbrain

How to move files to different folders based on their prefix?

I have thousands of files in my home folder that look like this: > ls 6_2_S28_R1_001.fastq.gz 19_1_S160_R1_001.fastq.gz 25_3_S114_R1_001.fastq.gz Here, as an example, I break down the name ...
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LDT

bash

awk

mv

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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#! /bin/bash for f in *_*_*_*_*.gz; do i="${f#*_}"; i="${i%%_*}" d="rep$i" echo "Move '$f' to '$d'" mkdir -p "$d" \ && mv ...
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Arnaud Valmary

mv/cp commands not working as expected wih xargs in bash

Hi I have 2 parent directories with these contents, under /tmp: Note parent directory names have ";" in it- not recommended in Unix like systems, but those directories are pushed by an exte...
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dig_123

bash

sh

xargs

cp

mv

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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Try a simpler approach: mkdir -p /tmp/archive mv -v /tmp/2021-*\;*\;*/ /tmp/archive
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pjh

Rename all files in a directory to be the same as the directory

I have a folder called "tokens". In this folder, I have several other folders, called things like "guard", "noble", "assassin", etc. In those folders are image ...
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Regniwekim

shell

rename

mv

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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There are certainly better/faster approaches but this should do the trick. find tokens -type f -exec sh -c "path='{}'"'; file="${path##*/}"; dir="${path%/*}"; folder=&quo...
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