I want to use mv
to rename a file:
mv src.txt dest.txt
If the file doesn't exist, I get an error:
mv: cannot stat ‘src.txt’: No such file or directory
How do I use mv
only if the file already exists?
I don't want to redirect stderr to dev/null
as I'd like to keep any other errors that occur
You should test if the file exists
if [ -f blah ]; then
mv blah destination
fi