If I understand correctly, you have a source folder with a large
mix of files and directories, but you only want to move the
directories (and the files & sub-directories within them), not
the files at the root level of the source. And you have enough
files/directories to make Lynx's dir-ed mode a pain. If so, I'd
use "find" to pull the directories and move them:
find /path/to/source/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d
That should generate a list of just the directories to be moved
so that you can review them. You can then tell "find" to move
those files:
find /path/to/source/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec mv
{} /path/to/dest/ \;
The "-maxdepth 1" prevents "find" from trying to go into
sub-directories to move their contents (after they've been
moved). I'm not sure if you need this.
The "-mindepth 1" prevents "find" from returning the current
directory "." because that triggers an error.
The "-type d" instructs "find" to only evaluate directories.
The "-exec mv {} /path/to/dest \;" (note the backslash before the
command-terminating semi-colon) is the command to be executed on
each resulting file, replacing the "{}" with the file-path that
"find" is considering.
Hope this helps,
-tim
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