linux - How to move (and overwrite) all files from one directory to another?

Question

I know of the mv command to move a file from one place to another, but how do I move all files from one directory into another (that has a bunch of other files), overwriting if the file already exists?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7190965/how-to-move-and-overwrite-all-files-from-one-directory-to-another

Answer 1

It's just mv srcdir/* targetdir/.

If there are too many files in srcdir you might want to try something like the following approach:

cd srcdir
find -exec mv {} targetdir/ +

In contrast to ; the final + collects arguments in an xargs like manner instead of executing mv once for every file.