Answer by Isaiah for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move hidden files?
In my case I was simply trying to mv a single hidden file and this was the solution: FILE=.myHiddenFile mv "$FILE" dest/ Explanation At first I was trying: mv .myHiddenFile dest/ But it kept producing...
View ArticleAnswer by Rick for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move hidden files?
If you want to copy files including hidden files to the current directory that you are in. cp -Rp source-directory/. .
View ArticleAnswer by user433901 for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move hidden...
So we have: a |-- .foo `-- bar and: b I took a huge time finding better solution than all the answers here. Then I took 30 seconds for this command: $ mv --help Then I found my love: $ mv a/ b/ -T...
View ArticleAnswer by Azamat for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move hidden files?
If you ls -l in a directory, you will see . and .. among listed files. So, I think mv .* /dest takes those pointers into account. Try: mv /tmp/home/rcook/{*,.[^.]*,..?*} /home/rcook/ this will ignore...
View ArticleAnswer by Andrew Schwartz for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move...
In your additions, you got errors but the code still worked. The only thing to add is that you told it only to copy the dot files. Try: mv src/* src/.* dst/ You will still get the errors for the . and...
View ArticleAnswer by Drake Clarris for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move...
Two possible solutions I can think of. The first is to use cp instead with its recursive option, copying the current directory to the destination. cp -Rp . /desired/directory then you can remove the...
View ArticleAnswer by dobey for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move hidden files?
There isn't really such a thing as "hidden" files on Linux. Files which begin with a dot are just hidden from file listings by default. To copy files even with a glob, you need to prefix the file with...
View ArticleAnswer by Gilles Quenot for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move...
You can do this : shopt -s dotglob mv /tmp/home/rcook/* /home/rcook/ You can put shopt -s dotglob in your ~/.bashrc if you want it to be the default. See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/glob Another...
View ArticleHow can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move hidden files?
I am migrating my home directory from an old system to a new one, and the tarball I made contains everything, including hidden files like .bashrc. However, when I move the contents of the unpacked...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeremy Davis for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move...
An alternate way is to use (GNU) find:find /tmp/home/rcook/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} /home/rcook/ \;
View ArticleAnswer by tcarv for How can I get mv (or the * wildcard) to move hidden files?
I know this is old, but, one simple way to do it is:mv a/{.*,*} b/ExplanationThis is called brace expansion. In this case, the shell expands the path you give by concatenating the string given before...
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