shtool-move (1)

shtool move [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-e|--expand] [-p|--preserve] src-file dst-file

This is a mv\|(1) style command enhanced with the ability to rename multiple files in a single operation and the ability to detect and not touch existing equal destinations files, thus preserving timestamps.

The following command line options are available.

-v, --verbose

Display some processing information.

-t, --trace

Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.

-e, --expand

Expand asterisk in src to be used as "\*(C`%\*(C'n" (where n is 1,2,...) in dst-file. This is useful for renaming multiple files at once.

-p, --preserve

Detect src-file and dst-file having equal content and not touch existing destination files, thus perserving timestamps. This is useful for applications that monitor timestamps, i.e. suppress make(1L) repeating actions for unchanged files.

 #   shell script
 shtool move -v -e '*.txt' %1.asc

 #   Makefile
 scanner.c: scanner.l
     lex scanner.l
     shtool move -t -p lex.yy.c scanner.c

The \s-1GNU\s0 shtool move command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <[email protected]> in 1999 for \s-1GNU\s0 shtool.

shtool\|(1), mv\|(1), make\|(1).