How about this one-liner (in bash): mkdir –parents ./some/path/; mv yourfile.txt $_ Breaking that down: mkdir –parents ./some/path # if it doesn’t work; try mkdir -p ./some/path creates the directory (including all intermediate directories), after which: mv yourfile.txt $_ moves the file to that directory ($_ expands to the last argument passed to the previous … Read more
Adding to Eric Jablow’s answer, here is a possible solution (it worked for me – linux mint 14 /nadia) find /path/to/search/ -type f -name “glob-to-find-files” | xargs cp -t /target/path/ You can refer to “How can I use xargs to copy files that have spaces and quotes in their names?” as well.
To rewrite the history with the files moved: If you want the project’s history to look as though all files have always been in the directory foo/bar, then you need to do a little surgery. Use git filter-branch with the “tree filter” to rewrite the commits so that anywhere foo/bar doesn’t exist, it is created … Read more
Unix filesystems use reference counting and a two-layer architecture for finding files. The filename refers to something called an inode, for information node or index node. The inode stores (a pointer to) the file contents as well as some metadata, such as the file’s type (ordinary, directory, device, etc.) and who owns it. Multiple filenames … Read more
You could use the rename(1) command: rename ‘s/(.*)$/new.$1/’ original.filename Edit: If rename isn’t available and you have to rename more than one file, shell scripting can really be short and simple for this. For example, to rename all *.jpg to prefix_*.jpg in the current directory: for filename in *.jpg; do mv “$filename” “prefix_${filename}”; done; or … Read more
Git detects renames rather than persisting the operation with the commit, so whether you use git mv or mv doesn’t matter. The log command takes a –follow argument that continues history before a rename operation, i.e., it searches for similar content using heuristics. To lookup the full history, use the following command: git log –follow … Read more