Commands tagged mv

Handles spaces in file names and directories. Optionally change directories as well by pipe to tr from dirname.

You could do the following, however, brace expansion with {} is not defined in POSIX, and therefore not guaranteed to work in all shells. But, if it does, it's more convenient (although it's certainly not less typing):

Sometimes there are times when I need to cp(1), mv(1) or rm(1) files recursively, but don't want to traverse the previous directory by following ../../../../ etc out of the current directory. This command prevents that. The secret sauce is ".??*". The file globbing ensures that it must start with a dot, and be followed by at least two characters. So, three characters must exist in the filename, which eliminates "." and "..".

Rename all mp4 files with crc32 information.

Sometimes in a hurry you may move or copy a file using an already existent file name. If you aliased the cp and mv command with the -i option you are prompted for a confirmation before overwriting but if your aliases aren't there you will loose the target file!

The -b option will force the mv command to check if the destination file already exists and if it is already there a backup copy with an ending ~ is created.

Give files a random name (don't ask why :-)

The function will rename files but maintain their extensions.

BUG: If a file doesn't have an extension it will end up with a dot at the end of the name.

The parameter '8' for pwgen controls the length of filenames - eight random characters.

rename file name with fixed length nomeric format pattern

easier way to recursively change files to lowercase using rename instead

(Changed to "bartonskis" suggestion.)

Avoid clobbering files by either overwriting due to name collisions or by assuming the command worked and deleting the target directory.

Prepends all directory items with "prependtext"

Find every file and move it to current directory.

You WILL have problems if the files have the same name.

Use cases: consolidate music library and unify photos (especially if your camera separates images by dates).

After running the command and verifying if there was no name issues, you can use

to remove now empty subdirectories.

Renames duplicates from MusicBrainz Picard, so you get the latest copy and not a bunch of duplicates.

Recursively rename .JPG to .jpg using standard find and mv. It's generally better to use a standard tool if doing so is not much more difficult.

For this example, all files in the current directory that end in '.xml.skippy' will have the '.skippy' removed from their names.

Useful if non-ascii characters in filenames have been improperly encoded. Replace "PROBLEM" with the incorrect characters (e.g. 'é'), and "FIX" with the correct ones (e.g. '?').

A powerfull way to rename file using sed groups.

& stand for the matched expression.

\1 referes to the first group between parenthesis. \2 to the second.

Takes filenames and directory names and replace space to '_'.

cd into the directory that contains the file.

this is just the usual move command but shortcut'd.

say you wanted to move a photo img1.png from ~/photos/holidayphotos into the parent directory which is ~/photos

command would be:

~/photos/holidayphotos$ mv img1.png ..

I use Ubuntu so this'll work in debian but not sure what else.