Ubuntu – How to move all files in current folder to subfolder

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I am at the path:

/myuser/downloads/

And I create a sub folder:

/myuser/downloads/new

Now I want to move all files and folders/sub-folders in the downloads folder to the sub-folder.

how can I do this?

I tried:

mv -R *.* new/

But move doesn't take the -R switch it seems.

Best Answer

The command

mv !(new) new

should do the trick. If it doesn't work, run shopt -s extglob first.

To also move hidden files/directories (that beginning with a dot), run also shopt -s dotglob first.
So, to sum up:

shopt -s extglob dotglob
mv !(new) new
shopt -u dotglob

(it is always better to unset dotglob to avoid bad surprises).

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for f in *; do
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The command seems ok and in my 11.10 it works. Haven't you missed the trailing slash in the destination folder?

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