Moving folders...

[blueb73]

This should be easy, but maybe not.

I want to move about 10 folders that are in a sub-folder (x).

In x there are also some files that I do not want to copy.

Looks like this

ls x

folder 1
folder 2
...
folder 10
file 1
file 2
file 3

now, using nautilus, i could do this in 2 seconds, but i am trying to learn the command line, and I cant find the answer.

I have googled and used my books, but all i see is how to move the folders and files, or one at a time, but not how to exclude the files!

argh!

any ideas?

Thanks!

[papibe]

You need a little script to do that:

for f in *; do
    if [ -d "$f" ]; then
        mv -- "$f" /path/to/destination
    fi
done

Basically: for every entry in the directory check if it is a directory. If it is, move it to another location.

Hope it helps,
Regards.

[YesWeCan]

find x/* -prune -type d -exec mv '{}' new_directory \;

The new_directory must already exist

[sujoy]

mv x/*(/) /where/you/want/to/copy/

Note: This works in zsh alright. Not tested for other shells.