It’s not completely clear to me, but what is the difference between mv and rename (from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 as /usr/bin/rename)? Are there advantages of one over the other beyond rename accepting regular expressions and mv doesn’t? I believe rename can also handle multiple file renames at once, whereas mv does not do this.
I tried following shell script which should replace spaces from all xml filenames
I have a couple of files that I want to move to another’s user home directory. I don’t have permissions to write to that user’s home directory, but I know his password.
How can I check if mv is atomic on my fs (ext4)?
Dealing with a whole bunch of two-line config files, I’d like a way to exclude any files that have a different number of lines.
I want to rename files to change their extension, effectively looking to accomplish
I find myself moving reasonably large amount of data (20+ GB) from one directory tree to other. Often times they are on the same filesystem but sometimes they are on different ones. I do cp just to preserve the original data just-in-case. Once the copy is done I delete the original data after verifying that the data has been copied alright. Sometimes I just do mv if I feel too lazy to clean original data afterwards. However, I am wondering, from purely technical point of view, which operation is more efficient? Why?
I’m trying to merge two directory trees that have many common elements but also each have elements that are only present in one of the two trees. The main issue I am having is that when mv encounters two sub-directories with the same relative paths it either keeps the source (with -f) or the destination (with -n) but I can’t make it take the union of both sub-directories. I could of course use rsync with --remove-source-files but this will actually copy the data and then delete the old files as opposed to a true move. The two directory trees contain several hundred GB of data and are both on same partition so I would love to do a true move if possible for the sake of time.
I have several files with encoding issues in their file names (German umlauts, burned on CD with Windows, read by Windows and synced to Linux with Seafile. Something, somewhere went wrong…).
Bash and zsh only show “?” instead of umlauts, stat shows something like
I have a directory that I am trying to clean out that contains both files and subdirectories. What I am trying to do is simple: move all the files into another directory, but leave all the sub-directories as they are.
