Linux command to move a directory
You should use mv -if old/* new/ without the trailing *.
This is because it unrolled to
mv -if old/foo old/bar old/baz new/foo new/bar new/bazi.e. move everything into new/baz
This is not what you wanted.
reef@localhost:/tmp/experiment$ ls a11 22 33reef@localhost:/tmp/experiment$ ls b22 33reef@localhost:/tmp/experiment$ lsa breef@localhost:/tmp/experiment$ mv a/* breef@localhost:/tmp/experiment$ ls areef@localhost:/tmp/experiment$ ls b11 22 33It works. What are You trying to achieve? Could You please write a short example of what the input data should look like and what the output data should look like? The truth is I have no idea what You are trying to do :) Help me help You.
note that mv a/* b/ don't move files .* (file name start with '.') in a/ to b/
ex:
$ mkdir -p a/d b && touch a/f a/.f a/d/.f$ mv a/* b/$ ls -a a/. .. .f