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move many directories to another directory using CLI

I want to copy some of the directories in a directory to another directory in that directory itself.

For Example:

I have the structure like the below

myname@compname:~/root/app/pages$ ls

dir1, dir2, dir3

I want the dir1 and dir2 to be moved into dir3 and the final structure has to be as the following:

myname@compname:~/root/app/pages$ ls

dir3

myname@compname:~/root/app/pages/dir3$ ls

dir1, dir2

I know the there are many shell programs for it. but I want this to happen using the CLI itself in just a single lined statement.

Solution 
  • mv dir1 dir2 dir3

    will do it

    mv dir1 dir2
mv dir2 dir3

    does the same thing, in two steps.

    Technically mv dir[123] would also do the same thing (for these file names), but would potentially be confusing as the destination is determined alphabetically