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I think I wiped out a bunch of subdirectories [on hold]
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowHow to prevent `mv` from moving a collection of files into a single regular one?Replace bunch of files maintaining pathAre there any dangers in using mv (instead of cp followed by rm)?How to move subdirectories into another subdirectory within the same directory?Recursive move (`mv -rn`, like `cp -rn`), a move that will only move not present filesI accidentally copied part of /* to /some/directory, how should I fix my mistake?I've just “mv”ed a 49GB directory to a bad file path, is it possible to restore the original state of the files?moving subdirectories with the mv commandEmpty all files in subdirectories to parent directoryNeed to loop through folder and move files to different directory?
I had a bunch of subdirectories here under ~/Sites. (This is on MAC 10.14 "Mojave" actually, not on linux.)
I needed to move a directory into the ~/Sites directory so I did
mv . ~/Sites/*
I think it was that one. Or one of these...
mv . ~/Sites/fetch
mv -r . ~/Sites/fetch
mv ./ ~/Sites/fetch
Now all the subdirectories in ~/Sites are gone except one of them which had caused some kind of error. I'm guessing everything is gone but under any chance the directories might be recoverable I'm just asking here.
mv
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I had a bunch of subdirectories here under ~/Sites. (This is on MAC 10.14 "Mojave" actually, not on linux.)
I needed to move a directory into the ~/Sites directory so I did
mv . ~/Sites/*
I think it was that one. Or one of these...
mv . ~/Sites/fetch
mv -r . ~/Sites/fetch
mv ./ ~/Sites/fetch
Now all the subdirectories in ~/Sites are gone except one of them which had caused some kind of error. I'm guessing everything is gone but under any chance the directories might be recoverable I'm just asking here.
mv
edited 2 days ago
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This doesn't make much sense, I'm afraid. None of those commands would have actually done anything, they all should have printed an error unless something's really different on macOS. Even if one of them worked, that would have moved stuff into the~/Sites/fetchdirectory. Does that exist? What is the output ofls -l ~/Sites/fetch?
– terdon♦
2 days ago
yeah I can't figure it out either and I did get errors.... idk then why all the files are wiped out...
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
fetch contains what I expected
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
And what did you expect? Are your subdirs there? We really can't help you if you don't give us any information.
– terdon♦
2 days ago
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I had a bunch of subdirectories here under ~/Sites. (This is on MAC 10.14 "Mojave" actually, not on linux.)
I needed to move a directory into the ~/Sites directory so I did
mv . ~/Sites/*
I think it was that one. Or one of these...
mv . ~/Sites/fetch
mv -r . ~/Sites/fetch
mv ./ ~/Sites/fetch
Now all the subdirectories in ~/Sites are gone except one of them which had caused some kind of error. I'm guessing everything is gone but under any chance the directories might be recoverable I'm just asking here.
mv
edited 2 days ago
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asked 2 days ago
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I had a bunch of subdirectories here under ~/Sites. (This is on MAC 10.14 "Mojave" actually, not on linux.)
I needed to move a directory into the ~/Sites directory so I did
mv . ~/Sites/*
I think it was that one. Or one of these...
mv . ~/Sites/fetch
mv -r . ~/Sites/fetch
mv ./ ~/Sites/fetch
Now all the subdirectories in ~/Sites are gone except one of them which had caused some kind of error. I'm guessing everything is gone but under any chance the directories might be recoverable I'm just asking here.
mv
mv
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This doesn't make much sense, I'm afraid. None of those commands would have actually done anything, they all should have printed an error unless something's really different on macOS. Even if one of them worked, that would have moved stuff into the~/Sites/fetchdirectory. Does that exist? What is the output ofls -l ~/Sites/fetch?
– terdon♦
2 days ago
yeah I can't figure it out either and I did get errors.... idk then why all the files are wiped out...
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
fetch contains what I expected
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
And what did you expect? Are your subdirs there? We really can't help you if you don't give us any information.
– terdon♦
2 days ago
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This doesn't make much sense, I'm afraid. None of those commands would have actually done anything, they all should have printed an error unless something's really different on macOS. Even if one of them worked, that would have moved stuff into the~/Sites/fetchdirectory. Does that exist? What is the output ofls -l ~/Sites/fetch?
– terdon♦
2 days ago
yeah I can't figure it out either and I did get errors.... idk then why all the files are wiped out...
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
fetch contains what I expected
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
And what did you expect? Are your subdirs there? We really can't help you if you don't give us any information.
– terdon♦
2 days ago
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This doesn't make much sense, I'm afraid. None of those commands would have actually done anything, they all should have printed an error unless something's really different on macOS. Even if one of them worked, that would have moved stuff into the
~/Sites/fetch directory. Does that exist? What is the output of ls -l ~/Sites/fetch?– terdon♦
2 days ago
This doesn't make much sense, I'm afraid. None of those commands would have actually done anything, they all should have printed an error unless something's really different on macOS. Even if one of them worked, that would have moved stuff into the
~/Sites/fetch directory. Does that exist? What is the output of ls -l ~/Sites/fetch?– terdon♦
2 days ago
yeah I can't figure it out either and I did get errors.... idk then why all the files are wiped out...
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
yeah I can't figure it out either and I did get errors.... idk then why all the files are wiped out...
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
fetch contains what I expected
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
fetch contains what I expected
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
And what did you expect? Are your subdirs there? We really can't help you if you don't give us any information.
– terdon♦
2 days ago
And what did you expect? Are your subdirs there? We really can't help you if you don't give us any information.
– terdon♦
2 days ago
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mv interprets the last item on the command line as the target, so when you passed in “Sites/*”, the shell expanded that splat into a list of all the files/directories in Sites, and treated the last item in the list as your target name.
It likely failed to move “.”, and then moved all other contents of Sites to the “last” folder in that directory.
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Don SimonDon Simon
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Only if the last thing that the*expanded to was actually a directory, otherwisemvwould have produced an error. If it was a directory, all the moved stuff would now be found therein.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
It is the first sentence of his question.
– Don Simon
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1 Answer
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mv interprets the last item on the command line as the target, so when you passed in “Sites/*”, the shell expanded that splat into a list of all the files/directories in Sites, and treated the last item in the list as your target name.
It likely failed to move “.”, and then moved all other contents of Sites to the “last” folder in that directory.
answered 2 days ago
Don SimonDon Simon
486
Only if the last thing that the*expanded to was actually a directory, otherwisemvwould have produced an error. If it was a directory, all the moved stuff would now be found therein.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
It is the first sentence of his question.
– Don Simon
2 days ago
add a comment |
mv interprets the last item on the command line as the target, so when you passed in “Sites/*”, the shell expanded that splat into a list of all the files/directories in Sites, and treated the last item in the list as your target name.
It likely failed to move “.”, and then moved all other contents of Sites to the “last” folder in that directory.
answered 2 days ago
Don SimonDon Simon
486
Only if the last thing that the*expanded to was actually a directory, otherwisemvwould have produced an error. If it was a directory, all the moved stuff would now be found therein.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
It is the first sentence of his question.
– Don Simon
2 days ago
add a comment |
mv interprets the last item on the command line as the target, so when you passed in “Sites/*”, the shell expanded that splat into a list of all the files/directories in Sites, and treated the last item in the list as your target name.
It likely failed to move “.”, and then moved all other contents of Sites to the “last” folder in that directory.
answered 2 days ago
Don SimonDon Simon
486
mv interprets the last item on the command line as the target, so when you passed in “Sites/*”, the shell expanded that splat into a list of all the files/directories in Sites, and treated the last item in the list as your target name.
It likely failed to move “.”, and then moved all other contents of Sites to the “last” folder in that directory.
answered 2 days ago
Don SimonDon Simon
486
answered 2 days ago
Don SimonDon Simon
486
answered 2 days ago
Don SimonDon Simon
486
answered 2 days ago
Don SimonDon Simon
486
486
Only if the last thing that the*expanded to was actually a directory, otherwisemvwould have produced an error. If it was a directory, all the moved stuff would now be found therein.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
It is the first sentence of his question.
– Don Simon
2 days ago
add a comment |
Only if the last thing that the*expanded to was actually a directory, otherwisemvwould have produced an error. If it was a directory, all the moved stuff would now be found therein.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
It is the first sentence of his question.
– Don Simon
2 days ago
Only if the last thing that the
* expanded to was actually a directory, otherwise mv would have produced an error. If it was a directory, all the moved stuff would now be found therein.– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
Only if the last thing that the
* expanded to was actually a directory, otherwise mv would have produced an error. If it was a directory, all the moved stuff would now be found therein.– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
It is the first sentence of his question.
– Don Simon
2 days ago
It is the first sentence of his question.
– Don Simon
2 days ago
add a comment |
2
This doesn't make much sense, I'm afraid. None of those commands would have actually done anything, they all should have printed an error unless something's really different on macOS. Even if one of them worked, that would have moved stuff into the
~/Sites/fetchdirectory. Does that exist? What is the output ofls -l ~/Sites/fetch?– terdon♦
2 days ago
yeah I can't figure it out either and I did get errors.... idk then why all the files are wiped out...
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
fetch contains what I expected
– anthony galligani
2 days ago
And what did you expect? Are your subdirs there? We really can't help you if you don't give us any information.
– terdon♦
2 days ago