On Friday 26 Sep 2003 4:10 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I studied the bash documentation reasonably thoroughly, including man mv > and info mv, but I haven`t found the answer to this; so I am hoping for a > simple answer here: > > Often I am in /home/dvg/foo and want to move files from /home/dvg/foo/bar > to ~/foo. I can`t find a command shortcut to do this. Until now I have had > to work around by: > cd bar > mv file* .. > s (=alias for cd ..) > > Naturally I could have done: > mv /bar/file* ~/foo, but sometimes my current prompt is several levels down > and I prefer to keep it short and simple. I`m sure there is an easier way. > > TIA for your answer. > > Regards, > =Dick Gevers= > > > .----> > Mandrake visibility? See headers... > <----. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. > > iD8DBQE/dFb8wC/zk+cxEdMRAum9AJ92+9vZGP/8NSxZki68DxnZm83Q6QCgoIif > aGogvymnC5ixKS4qwm3Cmk8= > =nRjw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
argh, test worked ... didn't think it would. Anyway: mv ~/foo/bar/file ~/foo -should work from any directory. If you were in foo you could use: mv bar/file . - not /bar/file though as this would point to a directory called bar under / - the . stands for the current directory. If you are moving files all the time you could do: export foobar=~/foo/bar - this sets the variable foobar to hold the path to save having to type it. from then on you could use: mv $foobar/file $foobar/.. If you wanted to you could edit ~/.bash_profile so that the variable foobar is set when you start bash. add the following: foobar=~/foo/bar export foobar This wouldn't be much use unless this file moving of yours is always from bar to foo. I'm reading through this basic stuff at the moment. I didn't understand where ~/ was.
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