Unable to move file from one directory to another directory

[anon10043]

sir,

I was using the command mv to move the file from one directory to another directory, but it doesn't move the file and it delete the file which was to move .
The syntax was :mv Virtuq.txt ankit/
one more thing that, File was moved when i change directory to the default directory of virtuq lab.

anon10043

[virtuq]

Anon10043,

It is difficult to figure out from your post what went wrong. :mv is not command, the command is mv. Did you do a ls in the directory to see that the file exists? Did you make sure that the target directory exists? Please check.

I will delete this post if the above errors were caused due to some typos in the command entered.

Thanks,

Anup

[anon10043]

Sir,

I thing it could be more clear to you with following attachment.

Thanku

[anup]

Anon10043,

The errors are self-explanatory. In the first case you tried to move a file with the name Virtuq.txt and that file did not exist. UNIX file names are case-sensitive. The name of the file in your directory is virtuq.txt. In the second case you appended a '/' in the destination which told mv that it should be a directory, however, it did not find any directory with that name and hence cribbed. If you remove the '/' and execute the command it will work. Anything after that is because the file does not exist. You should do a 'ls' and then see that the file exists before moving it.

Thanks,

Anup

[anon10043]

Sir,

command runs after removing '/' and file was moved from directory but it was not present in directory where it was moved.screen shot is there to clear all those thing which i want to say.

anon10043a.zip

[anup]

There are lots of things which are getting mixed up here. The target without a forward slash is treated like a file. So,

mv virtuq.txt ankit

will mean that the file virtuq.txt has been moved as file ankit or it has been renamed. You cannot cd to a file. Do a

ls -l

and look for d in the first line to see which are directories. These will also show up in blue color.

Anup