mv(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, this is mv(1) from the General Commands Manual — the move command. mv moves SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY. It’s giving file relocation realness. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mv [-f|--force] [-i|--interactive] [-n|--no-clobber]
[--strip-trailing-slashes] [--backup] [-b ] [-S|--suffix] [--update] [-u
] [-t|--target-directory] [-T|--no-target-directory] [-v|--verbose]
[-g|--progress] [-Z ] [--context] [--debug] [-h|--help] [-V|--version]
<files>

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Move SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY. That’s the whole vibe. No cap. ✨ Slay.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -f, --force — do not prompt before overwriting. Just send it. 🚀
• -i, --interactive — prompt before override. Consent check, bestie. 🙈
• -n, --no-clobber — do not overwrite an existing file. Not today, existing file. 💀
• --strip-trailing-slashes — remove any trailing slashes from each SOURCE argument. Slash cleanup era. 🧹
• --backup[=<CONTROL>] — make a backup of each existing destination file. Security blanket, but make it fashion. 🎀
• -b — like --backup but does not accept an argument. No extra args, just vibes. ✨
• -S, --suffix <SUFFIX> — override the usual backup suffix. You pick the suffix, bestie. 💖
• --update — move only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing.
  • Possible values:
    • none
    • all
    • older
    • none-fail
• -u — like --update but does not accept an argument.
• -t, --target-directory <DIRECTORY> — move all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY. Put them all in one place. 📁
• -T, --no-target-directory — treat DEST as a normal file. No directory energy. 🚫
• -v, --verbose — explain what is being done. Narrator mode: ON. 🎙️
• -g, --progress — Display a progress bar. Note: this feature is not supported by GNU coreutils.
• -Z — set SELinux security context of destination file to default type. Security context, but make it default. 🔒
• --context[=<CTX>] — like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux security context to CTX. You can specify CTX, iykyk. 🧚
• --debug — explain how a file is copied. Implies -v. Debug girlies, rise. 🐛
• -h, --help — Print help. We love a help flag. 🫶
• -V, --version — Print version. Version check, periodt. 👑
• <files> — the files you’re moving, bestie. 📂

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🎀 EXTRA 🎀

When specifying more than one of -i, -f, -n, only the final one will take effect. Last one wins, periodt. 💅

Do not move a non-directory that has an existing destination with the same or newer modification timestamp; instead, silently skip the file without failing. No drama, no failure, just skip. 🙈

If the move is across file system boundaries, the comparison is to the source timestamp truncated to the resolutions of the destination file system and of the system calls used to update timestamps; this avoids duplicate work if several mv -u commands are executed with the same source and destination. Efficiency queen. ✨

This option is ignored if the -n or --no-clobber option is also specified. which gives more control over which existing files in the destination are replaced, and its value can be one of the following:

• all — This is the default operation when an --update option is not specified, and results in all existing files in the destination being replaced.
• none — This is similar to the --no-clobber option, in that no files in the destination are replaced, but also skipping a file does not induce a failure.
• older — This is the default operation when --update is specified, and results in files being replaced if they’re older than the corresponding source file.

The backup suffix is '~', unless set with --suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be selected via the --backup option or through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values:

• none, off — never make backups (even if --backup is given)
• numbered, t — make numbered backups
• existing, nil — numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise
• simple, never — always make simple backups

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💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

xoxo, this has been mv(1) from the General Commands Manual, source/version mv (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 💖✨