I want to move all my drupal files in www folder to html folder. I don't know how to do this in terminal and I'm not sure if all folder and files including hidden ones are drupal in the www folder, is there a way of checking the lesser obvious ones or would www have been empty before and any hidden files will auto recreate?
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With zsh:
mv -- *(D) html mv will complain that it can't move html to itself, but will still move the rest.
With bash:
shopt -s dotglob mv -- * html With ksh93:
FIGNORE='@(.|..)' mv -- * html POSIXly:
mv -- * .??* .[!.] html or
mv -- * .[!.]* ..?* html (you're likely to get errors for those of the patterns that have no match. That should be harmless but will still cause the exit status to be non-zero so in script you would not be able to distinguish that with a failure to move files).
answered Nov 30, 2012 at 7:40
Stéphane Chazelas
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- Oh I wish I had seen this before- very helpful. I ended up uploading to html directory a fresh install and now the other is still residing other folder so I will just remove what I know to be drupal I guess. Thanks. I will copy this above info for future ref.freja– freja2012-11-30 08:46:13 +00:00Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 8:46
The easy way:
# from the www directory cd .. mv www html mkdir www mv html www/ This assumes you don't already have a html directory at the same level as www. If you do, pick a different name:
cd .. mv www temp_name mkdir www mv temp_name www/html answered Nov 30, 2012 at 21:04
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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- 1remember to check access permissions and ownership if you're to recreate a directory that existed before.Stéphane Chazelas– Stéphane Chazelas2012-11-30 21:30:33 +00:00Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 21:30
A naive option (don't try it!) would be: mv * .* html - this will however try to move . and .. too, which is not quite what you want. I usually do something like mv * .??* html - this moves normal file and hidden files with names that have at least 3 characters in them, effectively skipping . and ..
- That would skip
.aand.zas well.Stéphane Chazelas– Stéphane Chazelas2012-11-30 07:41:25 +00:00Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 7:41 - Thanks but how do I know what files are assoc with drupal, is there a way to ask the system?freja– freja2012-11-30 08:47:29 +00:00Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 8:47