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Old 02-10-2009
graysky graysky is offline
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I'd like a bash script to simply check to see if any file/files are present in a source directory, and if so move it/them to a target directory.

I have this but it doesn't work:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
 
 if [ -e /source/* ]
then
  mv /source/* /target
fi
What is the right syntax? Thanks!