How to move all files (excluding sub-directories) from one directory to another?

Question

How do you move all the files (excluding sub-directories) from one directory to another. I'd prefer if the solution used just basic shell scripting.

Answer 1

The easy way:

for f in /some/path/*; do
    if [ -f "$f" ]; then
        mv "$f" /some/other/path
    fi
done

The slightly more complicated way:

find /some/path -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv {} /dome/other/path \;

Answer 2

Using find:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} mv {} /path/to/target/directory/{}

This will also deal with filenames containing newlines.

Answer 3

cd $src
mv `find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf '%f\n'` $tgt

should do it, where $srcis your source folder and $tgt is your target folder

Answer 4

$ cd $SOURCE_DIR
$ mv `ls -p| grep -v /` $Target_dir

Execution Steps

1. Move to Source directory using cd command.
2. ls -p suffixes "/" to all the directories.
3. grep -v is used exclude the directories and to get the regular file.
4. Finally moving all the files to the target directory.