Sorry for my bad english. I want to move a file from the Desktop to user’s input destination. If destination has also a file with the same name, how can i ask user to rename the file so that he can have them both in destination folder? I have this right now:
#!bin/bash echo "path" read path echo "Do you want to move code files somewhere else?" read -t 5 y if [[ $y = 'yes' ]] ; then echo "Tell me where:" read mydest find $path -type f ( -name "*.c" -or -name "*.cxx" -or -name "*.cpp" -or -name "*.cc" ) );do mv ??? fi
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Answer
Demonstrating using mv
and switches -i
(interactive) and --backup
:
$ echo foo > foo # making test files $ echo bar > bar $ mv -i --backup foo bar # mving foo mv: overwrite 'bar'? y # -i caused this $ cat bar foo # mv caused this $ cat bar~ # --backup caused this bar