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Old 09-23-2009
Question about move command
Is there a way to undo a move after running a command such as this:

Code:
find ./* -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec mv {} /new/dir \;

Smilie
# 2  
Old 09-23-2009
No, there is no "undo".

Whether you have lost files depends on whether /new/dir existed as a directory and whether every filename.pdf had a unique name.

Back to backup I fear. Even if every filename was unique, you need to know where they came from.
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Old 09-23-2009
Understood.

So is there some other way to "create" and undo option? Like have the command do a file list first, then for the undo, have it reference the file list and move the files back to the original directories?
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Old 09-23-2009
you can make alias of the actual command.. like rm and mv.

create a file in home dir say .secure_mv
Code:
/home/anchal_khare->cat .secure_mv
cp $1 $1.bkp
mv $1 $2

now create and alias for mv in your shell profile ( say .bashrc for bash shell)

Code:
alias mv='~/.secure_mv'

now everytime you execute the mv command it will first create a copy of file.bkp before moving it.


note: this is just an idea.should not be used professionally.
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