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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Moving Files Automatically Post 302640469 by glev2005 on Tuesday 15th of May 2012 11:26:39 AM
Old 05-15-2012
Ok well assuming you want to move the contents of every folder on your desktop to the actual desktop you could do:
Code:
cd ~/Desktop && ls -l |awk '$0 ~ /'^d'/ {print $9}'|while read dir;do cd "$dir" && mv * ~/Desktop && cd ~/Desktop ;done

That Should work, but test it first if you are able.

In the for loop, the i represents a variable that expands to the item found on each respective iteration of the loop, so basically for i in ~/Downloads means that $i represents each individual item in the Downloads folder, for each pass through the loop it goes down the list of every item in that folder. the i can be anything, it is just a variable name.

---------- Post updated 05-15-12 at 11:26 AM ---------- Previous update was 05-14-12 at 10:02 PM ----------

Actually that code will fail if there are spaces in the folder names on your desktop. Try this instead:

Code:
cd ~/Desktop && ls -l |awk '$0 ~ /'^d'/ {$1=$2=$3=$4=$5=$6=$7=$8="" ; print $0 }'|while read dir;do cd "$dir" && mv * ~/Desktop && cd ~/Desktop ;done

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

update-desktop-database

update-desktop-database(1)					   User Commands					update-desktop-database(1)

NAME

       update-desktop-database - Desktop file caching utility

SYNOPSIS

       update-desktop-database [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [filepath]

DESCRIPTION

       update-desktop-database creates cache files for desktop file MIME type mapping for improved MIME lookup performance.

       It  expects  to	be  given  the	path  to  a  directory	or  directories  containing a number of application installed .desktop files, e.g.
       /usr/share/applications, and writes a mime-info.cache containing cached information about the MIME types that each application can  handle.
       If  no directory is provided, this utility will use a default directory list as specified in the FreeDesktop MIME specification. This cache
       file is used to avoid a lot of system call and disk seek overhead in a number of applications.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -?, --help		       Show help options.

       -v, --verbose		       Turn on verbose output.

       -q, --quiet		       Do not provide any output.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       filepath 	       The path to a directory or directories containing a number of application installed .desktop files.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       1	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/update-desktop-databaseThe command-line executable for the application.

       /usr/share/applications	       System desktop file directory

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       update-mime-database(1), gnome-desktop-item-edit(1), attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide and GNOME System Administration Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    31 Jan 2007 					update-desktop-database(1)
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