Commands using mv (214)
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In a directory hierarchy that contains multiple file types, copy only the .pdf files (in this case) and move them to a different directory, without the original directory hierarchy.
0find <source_directory> -name *.pdf -exec mv {} <destination_dir> \; -
0find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | awk 'BEGIN { c=0 } { if( c == <quantity_at_a_time> ) { print l; l=$0; c=1 } else { if( l != "") { l=l" "$0 } else { l=$0 }; c++}} END { print l }' | xargs mv -t <dir_dest>
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0find dir1 -maxdepth 1 -type f | head -100000 | xargs mv -t dir2/subdir
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0find $_SOURCE -type f -name '*' -exec mv {} $_DESTINATION \;
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It tries to identify the file types in a directory and adds or replaces them with their appropriate extensions. Please, update the "file" tool before use it (last version: 5.37): https://github.com/file/file
0find "$(realpath .)" -type f -exec bash -c 'p="{}"; b="${p##*/}"; e=${b#"${b%.*}"}; e2=$(file -b -F="" --extension "$p"| awk -F/ '\''$1~/^\w+$/ {print $1} '\''); if [ "$e" != ".$e2" ] && [ ! -z $e2 ]; then mv "$p" "${p%$b}${b%$e}.$e2"; fi;' \; -
The “predictive capture” feature of Sony's Xperia camera app hides the date stamp deeply inside the filename. This command adds another date stamp at the beginning of the filename. Show Sample Output
0(setopt CSH_NULL_GLOB; cd /path/to/Camera\ Uploads; for i in DSCPDC_000*; do mv -v $i "$(echo $i | perl -lpe 's/(DSCPDC_[0-9]{4}_BURST)([0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})/$2-$3-$4 $1$2$3$4/')"; done) -
For each *.jpg or *.JPG file in the current directory, extract the date the photo was taken from its EXIF metadata. Then replace the date stamp, which is assumed to exist in the filename, by the date the photo was taken. A trick from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/9256 is used to split the date into its components. Show Sample Output
0(IFS=': '; for i in *.(#i)jpg; do set $(exiv2 -K 'Exif.Image.DateTime' -Pv $i 2> /dev/null); mv -v $i "$1-$2-$3${i#[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]}"; done) -
Jan Nelson from Grockit came up with this for us when we needed to rename all of our fixtures.
-1for x in *s.yml; do mv $x `echo $x | sed 's/s\.yml/\.yml/'`; done -
This command adds the numbers 10, 12, 14 to a bunch of mp3's in the current working directory. You can then run the command replacing the inital i=10 with i=11 to add 11,13,15 in another directory then mv the files together and the first files interweave with the second group of files. I used this to weave a backlog of a podcast with other podcast so I didn't get sick of one while I was catching up. I started at 10 because printf blows up with 0 padded numbers 08 and 09 which kind of makes the printf command redundant as it was used to pad numbers 1 - 9 so they would come first and not get sorted incorrectly
-1i=10;for o in *.mp3; do i=$(printf "%02d" $i); mv $o $i$o; ((i = $i + 2)); done -
It happened to me that I got a season of a tv-show which had all files under the same folder like /home/blah/tv_show/season1/file{1,2,3,4,5,...}.avi But I like to have them like this: /home/blah/tv_show/season1/e{1,2,3,4,5,...}/file{1,2,3,4,5,...}.avi So I can have both the srt and the avi on one folder without cluttering much. This command organizes everything assuming that the filename contains Exx where xx is the number of the episode. You may need to set:
IFS=$'\n'if your filenames have spaces.-1season=1; for file in $(ls) ; do dir=$(echo $file | sed 's/.*S0$season\(E[0-9]\{2\}\).*/\1/'); mkdir $dir ; mv $file $dir; done -
-1find . -maxdepth 1 -type f| xargs sha1sum | sed 's/^\(\w*\)\s*\(.*\)/\2 \1/' | while read LINE; do mv $LINE; done
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You WILL have problems if the files have the same name. Use cases: consolidate music library and unify photos (especially if your camera separates images by dates). After running the command and verifying if there was no name issues, you can use
ls -d */ | sed -e 's/^/\"/g' -e 's/$/\"/g' | xargs rm -rto remove now empty subdirectories.-1ls -d */* | sed -e 's/^/\"/g' -e 's/$/\"/g' | xargs mv -t $(pwd) -
This got a bit complicated, because I had to introduce an additional dot at the end that has to be removed again later.
-1for each in *; do file="$each."; name=${file%%.*}; suffix=${file#*.}; mv "$each" "$(echo $name | rot13)${suffix:+.}${suffix%.}"; done -
-1sed 's/^[ \t]*//' < <file> > <file>.out; mv <file>.out <file>
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(Changed to "bartonskis" suggestion.)
-1flipf(){ if [ -f "$1" -a -f "$2" ]; then mv "$1" "$1.$$" && mv "$2" "$1" && mv "$1.$$" "$2" || echo "$!"; else echo "Missing a file: $!"; fi; } -
If you have a folder with thousand of files and want to have many folder with only 100 file per folder, run this. It will create 0/,1/ etc and put 100 file inside each one. But find will return true even if it don't find anything ... Show Sample Output
-1folder=0;mkdir $folder; while find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv "{}" $folder \; -quit ; do if [ $( ls $folder | wc -l ) -ge 100 ]; then folder=$(( $folder + 1 )); mkdir $folder; fi ; done -
Renames files eliminating suffix, in this case everything after "-" is cutted. Just change "-" with the character you need. Show Sample Output
-1for i in *; do j=`echo $i | cut -d "-" -f1`; j=$j; mv $i $j; done -
You can replace "." with your folder
-1find . -name '*.txt' -exec mv {} {}.sh \ ; -
Replaces space in a file with a underline
-1find ./ $1 -name "* *" | while read a ; do mv "${a}" "${a//\ /_}" ; done -
-1for file in "* *"; do mv "${file}" "${file// /_}"; done
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-1ls -1 | while read file; do new_file=$(echo $file | sed s/\ /_/g); mv "$file" "$new_file"; done
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Replace YOURPASSWORDHERE with the pdf password. [qpdf needed]
-1mkdir -p temp && for f in *.pdf ; do qpdf --password=YOURPASSWORDHERE --decrypt "$f" "temp/$f"; done && mv temp/* . && rm -rf temp -
-1IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); mkdir Epub; for i in `find . | grep epub`; do echo "epub: $i"; mv -v "$i" Epub; done
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-1mkdir Epub ; mv -v --target-directory=Epub $(fgrep -lr epub *)
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This command renames the file 'filename' to 'filename.old' using shell expansion. Same as typing "mv filename filename.old".
-1mv filename{,.old} - ‹ First < 5 6 7 8 9 >
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