[SOLVED] command for transfering files

[nothingspecial]

I have hundreds of jpeg files on my desktop. What command would I use to transfer them all into home/me/photos, removing them from home/me/Desktop at the same time. There is nothing else on my desktop btw.
Thanks in advance.

[quinnten83]

probably something like

mv ~/Desktop/*.jpg ~/photos

but don't quote me on the syntax
Als i would use

cp ~/Desktop/*.jpg ~/photos
and then
mv ~/Desktop/*.jpg
Which means, copy first and then delete.

But again, don't quote me on the syntax, because I understand the essence of those commands but haven't been able to work properly with them yet.

[acidsolution]

If you want to move than

mv /home/me/Desktop/*.jpg ../photos/

[wormser]

mv ~/Desktop/*.jpg ~/photos.

That looks right to me.

[nothingspecial]

cp ~/Desktop/*.jpg ~/photos

This moved them thankyou

mv ~/Desktop/*.jpg

That didn`t remove them. So I tried -

rm ~/Desktop/*.jpg

which retuned

rm: remove regular file `/home/me/Desktop/Photo-0001.jpg'?

so I pressed y so it asked me if I wanted to remove 000.2.jpg and so on, so I pressed y 121 times and they`re all gone.

I guess I have my photo`s where I want them and not where I don`t but I`d still like to know the command that does it in 1 hit.

[Kronie]

or, you could just select'em all, ctrl+x and then ctrl+v in ~/photos :P

[quinnten83]

according to man remove

rm -f would have done the trick.
you would not have been prompted.

[StooJ]

acidsolution's command would have been the one click wonder. So would quinnten83's first command. They are both pretty much the same. I personally prefer quinnten83's solution because copying and pasting the command would work. (Rereading the OP I notice that acidsolution's command was perfect for C&Ping too, if your username is indeed me

mv ~/Desktop/*.jpg ~/photos

mv is move files (or think of it as a "copy files then delete the originals")

~ is a nice shortcut to the current user's home directory. If you compare quinnten83's command to acidsolution's command:

quinnten83: mv ~/Desktop/*.jpg ~/photos
acidsolution: mv /home/me/Desktop/*.jpg ../photos/


acidsolution's example relies on your user name being "me". Obviously you would replace this with your user name, perhaps : /home/nothingspecial/Desktop
quinnten83 uses the tilda, so the command understands it as being /home/nothingspecial/Desktop automatically. If I had a user account on your computer, I would type ~/Desktop and it would resolve to /home/stooj/Desktop

I'm sure you're probably familiar with wildcards, but just in case:
* means "anything". I'll use the ls command in these examples, ls lists the contents of a directory.

ls * will list all the files in the current directory

ls P* will list all the files starting with the letter P in the current directory.

ls *.jpg will list all the files with a jpg extension (any file, as long as it's a jpg picture)

So, back to quinnten83's command.


mv ~/Desktop/*.jpg ~/photos
Move all the jpg pictures on my personal desktop into my personal photos folder.

I hope this helps

[nothingspecial]

Forgot to mark this solved - sorry.