Linux – How to mass move files one directory up

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I have about 200 directories in /home/. The problem is that they all exist in this way:

/home/{user}/homedir/

While it should just be:

/home/{user}/

With what command can I mass move all content of homedir one directory up for each user?

Thanks for the help.

Best Answer

This might be different depending on your shell, but assuming bash:

for a in $(find /home -maxdepth 1 -type d); do mv $a/homedir/* $a/; rmdir $a/homedir; done

Run the find command separately to verify the list is what you expect before you run the full command and remove the rmdir part if you want to keep the empty homedir in each folder.

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Your

mv * ./new_directory

command will actually work; it'll just print a warning that it can't move that directory into itself.

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This might sound like a silly idea, but if the users aren't actually doing anything, you could do:

cat /etc/passwd | cut -f 1 -d : >/tmp/users.list

Then edit /tmp/users.list to only contain the users you want. Then do:


for i in `cat /tmp/users.list`
do
    userdel $i
    useradd -m $i
done

However, many Redhat based distributions will create you a new home directory when you first login, providing it is specified in /etc/passwd where the directory should be.

To test that, do an "su - " and see if it does "the right thing". If it doesn't, the above script will work quite nicely, I think.

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