[SOLVED] Help moving multiple folders to a new location

vagkouts · 10-11-2017, 03:58 AM

i have in a specific location a lot of folders with the prefix folder_2017xxxxxx. I want to move the folders with the prefix folder_201708xx only to a new location with one command.

i tried
mv "folder_201708*" /newlocation/
and it returns
mv: cannot stat `folder_201709*': No such file or directory

any idea?

pan64 · 10-11-2017, 04:01 AM

try without "

vagkouts · 10-11-2017, 04:23 AM

Thanks pan for the reply,

i tried the command without the quotes and the output was

mv: cannot overwrite directory /newlocation/folder_201708xxxx

pan64 · 10-11-2017, 05:29 AM

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...-files-with-mv