Hey Thanks. Works great.
About the wild card option. I had a bunch of files that began in
"Chapter" minus the quotes. I tried to note them by cd to the
directory and then typing
mv *Chapter/ /directory/to/move/to
But it misstook the syntax *Chapter for a file name. Does the wild
card only work on things like file extensions?
Regards
Justin Harford
Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell and
looked awhile, pondering his voyage
John Milton
Paradise Lost
On Mar 25, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
I don't have a move-to option either. In regards to terminal,
though, you don't "select" multiple files. The syntax to move or
copy multiple files is identical to any other UNIX-like OS.
To copy multiple files do:
cp /path/to/file1 /path/to/file2... /path/to/destination
You can also use shell wildcards, so:
cp *.doc ~/Documents
Would copy all files ending in the .doc extension to your Documents
folder. Note that the ~ symbol references your home directory. The
syntax for moving files is identical, but use the mv command instead
of cp. For more information you might want to look at a basic UNIX
tutorial if you've never worked in the UNIX command line before.
WARNING: there is absolutely no confirmation and if you make a
mistake in moving a file it can't be undone if you overwrite
something you didn't mean to. If you want a confirmation step, add
the -I option to the mv or cp commands before the first filename.
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
My process
Select file or folder in finder
press vo shift m
up arrow to the "more" menu.
press return
The four options I find are
automator
send item to…
enable folder actions
configure folder actions.
I can't find anything to do with moving. Unless perhaps "send to"
has something to do with it. Anyone know what "WM_Administrat2 "
is?
Yeah you might have installed that move utility thing without
knowing it. But certainly there is no such functionality included
with OS anything right now.
I remember Greg mentioned a while back that the reason why we don't
have something liek ctrl x to cut files in os x, is because that
means that the file is temporarily destroyed and if you copy
something else to the clipboard, it will be gone forever (the file
you were moving). But I wonder if there is not a way we could just
attach an earmark for a file to be moved. Press ctrl x, and
instead of copying the file to the clipboard, it puts a tag of some
sort that instructs the system to do the equiv of a mouse drag to
the folder that someone selects with another command like ctrl c or
perhaps ctrl shift x or something else. If I press ctrl x to
earmark a file for moving, and then press ctrl c to copy another
file to the clipboard, the earmark on the first will just disappear.
But in the mean time I use terminal. And I sure would like a
syntax for selecting multiple files for moving or copying in
terminal. I think I asked this a while back and didn't see an
answer.
Regards
Justin Harford
Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell
and looked awhile, pondering his voyage
John Milton
Paradise Lost
On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Hey All, have you seen the Move to option in Finder? I'm not
talking about the automator option, I'm talking about a specific
'Move to' option which is now in the 'More' menu of Finder.
Has this been added in 10.5.2?
Smiles,
Cara :)
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