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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 309

moving folder from unknown location to different location on server

I am trying to move a folder and his content to a different location on the server. Folder can be anywhere but I have to move it to a specific location. So far I have tried something like this, but its not working

find / -name 'test_folder' -exec mv 'test_folder' /Users/michael/Downloads/here/. {} +

Any suggestions, what am I doing wrong?

Also what would be variation of this command in .sh ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 138

Answers (1)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 531708

You have to give mv the full name of the folder found, not just the immediate name: /some/other/dir/test_folder, not test_folder. Use

find / -name test_folder -exec mv '{}' /Users/michael/Downloads/here +

UPDATE: The + form of -exec seems to require that {} be the final argument of the command, unlike with the ; version.

# Less efficient, as `mv` is called for every found directory
find / -name test_folder -exec mv '{}' /Users/michael/Downloads/here \;

or

# More complicated, but less overhead
find / -name test_folder -exec sh -c 'mv "$@" /Users/michael/Downloads/here' {} +

Upvotes: 2

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