mistake during type mv command

neverland · 12-21-2010, 01:47 AM

hello guys
I accidentally type mv command wrong.
actually it supposed to be
mv SNAP-20101215* dec10/week3_dec10/
but i type the below instead
mv SNAP-20101215* dec10/week3_dec2010/

Note: there is a folder name "dec10/week3_dec10/"
but there is no folder name "dec10/week3_dec2010/"

as a result of it, instead of having those files under dec10/week3_dec10 but it merge those files into one file name "week3_dec2010" , is there any way to change it back to orginal files?

Snark1994 · 12-21-2010, 05:58 AM

What distro/shell are you using? On both zsh and bash (under Ubuntu, but I don't think that would affect it) it doesn't let me do that:

Code:

joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ rm *
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ echo "Hello 1" > bob1
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ echo "Hello 2" > bob2
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ mv bob* foo
mv: target `foo' is not a directory

Assuming that you HAVE actually made a file (and not moved them into a directory), what is inside the file? Is it the contents of one of the SNAP-20101215 files? Or the contents of all of them one after the other? Or something strange and peculiar?

ordinary · 12-21-2010, 08:59 AM

Neverland, I don't have an immediate solution, but I believe that the trailing "/" is part of the cause. At least it is why your case is different than Snark's example.

If the source files are actually merged into one destination file, it is likely that your only solution is to manually extract it. If it is human readable, vi or grep or somesuch could help. If it is not human readable, I suspect you have some aggravation in your immediate future.

Good luck!

Snark1994 · 12-22-2010, 05:16 AM

'fraid not...

Code:

[joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test]$ mv bob* foo/                      (12-22 11:15)
mv: target `foo/' is not a directory
[joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test]$ bash                              (12-22 11:15)
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ mv bob* foo/
mv: target `foo/' is not a directory

neverland · 12-27-2010, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snark1994

What distro/shell are you using? On both zsh and bash (under Ubuntu, but I don't think that would affect it) it doesn't let me do that:

Code:

joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ rm *
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ echo "Hello 1" > bob1
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ echo "Hello 2" > bob2
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ mv bob* foo
mv: target `foo' is not a directory

Assuming that you HAVE actually made a file (and not moved them into a directory), what is inside the file? Is it the contents of one of the SNAP-20101215 files? Or the contents of all of them one after the other? Or something strange and peculiar?

my info.
SNAP-20101215 files are pictures from ip camera.
I use /bin/bash.
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Snark1994 · 12-30-2010, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snark1994

Assuming that you HAVE actually made a file (and not moved them into a directory), what is inside the file? Is it the contents of one of the SNAP-20101215 files? Or the contents of all of them one after the other? Or something strange and peculiar?

Sorry, I think you misunderstood my question... What is inside the file you made, 'week3_dec2010'?

catkin · 12-30-2010, 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snark1994

What distro/shell are you using? On both zsh and bash (under Ubuntu, but I don't think that would affect it) it doesn't let me do that:

Code:

joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ rm *
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ echo "Hello 1" > bob1
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ echo "Hello 2" > bob2
joshua@joshua-desktop:~/test$ mv bob* foo
mv: target `foo' is not a directory

It's not the shell that is doing that, it's the mv command as confirmed by the "mv:" at the start of the message.