mvb is a little utility to move files back. It’s like mv, but reversed.
Have you ever moved the wrong file with mv, and edited your previous command
to mv back the file? With mvb, all you need to do is to re-run your command
with a b at the end of mv. That’s it.
$ mv foo/bar/qux/myfile abc/xyz/myfile2
# damn, wrong file, let’s move it back
$ mvb foo/bar/qux/myfile abc/xyz/myfile2
- no dependencies
- all
mvoptions are supported
mkdir -p ~/bin
curl https://raw.github.com/bfontaine/mvb/master/mvb > ~/bin/mvb
chmod u+x ~/bin/mvb
This creates the ~/bin directory if it doesn’t exist. If it’s not in your
PATH you have to add it:
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
On OS X with Homebrew, use:
brew install bfontaine/utils/mvb
A lot of mv variations can’t be reverted without much informations, for
example:
mv foo/* bar/
Thus, mvb handles only simple cases where a file is renamed/moved; not
complex ones involving glob patterns and directories renaming. By default,
mvb runs mv on its (switched) arguments. If the last path ends with a
slash, it appends the first file’s name to it before continuing.
For example, mvb foo bar is equivalent to mv bar foo; while mvb foo bar/
is equivalent to mv bar/foo foo.