Judicious use of symbolic links and bash regular expressions can also make short work of this.
If you do cd ~/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5 ln -s ../../.. folder2 you will have a folder under folder5 called folder2 which points to your original folder2 directory You can then simply mv filename folder2/ to move each file. Bash regular expressions can come in handy when moving lots (but not all) files. For example mv DSCF0[4-6]*.jpg will move everything between DSCF04... to DSCF06... with one statement. Google for more help, since I'm not too good with regular expressions, myself. Once you are done, you can run rm folder2 in folder5 to remove the symlink (but not the original directory). Note also that a symlink to a folder above your current location in the hierarchy does create an infinite loop, Be careful when using recursive commands! If it is likely that you are going to be moving things to folder2 regularly from a variety of location, you may want to create a bash script, which takes a filename as an argument: #!/bin/sh # moves a given filename to ~/folder1/folder2/ mv $1 ~/folder1/folder2/ Save this as folder2 in your home directory (or somewhere in your path: I use ~/bin/ which I add to path). Then run chmod 755 folder2 to make it executable. Then you can type folder2 filename to move filename from any directory to ~/folder1/folder2 Have fun! Marti On 22 November 2010 13:26, Simon P Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > On 22/11/2010 18:16, StarLion wrote: > >> m...@computer:~#/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5 mv blah > blah......... > >> > >> Now I want to go back to work in folder2, what the easy command to get > me back > >> there?? > > Assuming you're working in folder5 in your example, running 'cd ..' > > will go back to folder4. > > To go down two levels, you want 'cd ../..' and for three, just add > another '/..' > > _________________________________________________________________ > If you are using these regularly then you can also use aliases to create > shortcuts to > the directories (i.e. gowww is alised on my system to /home2/var/www/site1/ > > Alternatively you can use symlinks to create pointers to those > directories, i.e. > my /backup is a link to /media/nfs/buffnas1/backups/serverwww1 > > Si > > -- > Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
