I wrote a script to move some files form one folder to another folder
but I got the following error, I checked 2 folders and notice for 1 folder there are such files and another there is no such files, but why all of them shows "mv cannot stat No such files or directory"
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/194.199.68.165_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/194.42.17.124_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/195.113.161.13_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/203.159.127.3_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/212.199.61.205_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/212.51.218.235_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/213.73.40.105_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/41.225.7.4_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/83.230.127.122_tcp.folder/data/*': No such file or directory
[esolve@kitty tcp_50x50]$ ls /home/wgong/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/194.199.68.165_tcp.folder/
[esolve@kitty tcp_50x50]$ ls /home/wgong/project/capture/tcp_50x50/dest_folder/203.159.127.3_tcp.folder/data/
129.88.70.226 132.187.230.1 138.96.116.22 155.185.54.250 192.38.109.144 193.136.227.163 193.175.135.61 195.113.161.13 83.230.127.122
130.104.72.200 132.227.62.122 147.83.29.232 156.17.10.52 192.42.43.22 193.137.173.218 193.205.215.74 212.199.61.205
131.130.69.164 132.252.152.194 148.81.140.193 157.181.175.249 192.43.193.71 193.144.21.131 193.226.19.30 212.51.218.235
131.188.44.102 134.151.255.180 152.66.245.162 160.78.253.31 193.1.170.136 193.145.46.243 194.199.68.165 213.73.40.105
131.254.208.10 138.48.3.203 152.81.47.4 192.114.4.3 193.136.166.56 193.166.160.98 194.42.17.124 41.225.7.4
the script is:
list=`ls dest_folder`
cd dest_folder
cwd=`pwd`
for folder in $list;do
mv ${cwd}/${folder}'/data/*' ${cwd}/${folder}
done
I ran it in /home/esolve/project/capture/tcp_50x50/
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Best Answer
The quotes (
'
) there prevent the shell from doing globbing. The*
is being passed literally to themv
command, which fails since it doesn't find files called*
in the directories indicated.Change this to:
(Double quotes to prevent problems if you ever have a directory name with spaces in it.
*
outside the quotes.)You'll still get the errors for the empty directories though. (Same sort of reason: if the file doesn't find a match for the pattern, it passes the pattern itself as an argument to the command.)