mv：无法将“water.txt”移动到“/liquid”：Windows 中的权限被拒绝 [Git bash]

Question

I have created two directories in desktop as solid and liquid.Initially liquid doesn't have any files but solid has two files as rock.txt and water.txt.I tried to move water.txt to liquid but it throws and error.How can i fix this?

''' $ mv water.txt /liquid

mv: cannot move 'water.txt' to '/liquid': Permission denied

'''

Answer 1

Following your steps, your Desktop/ folder should look like this:

├── liquid
├── solid
│   ├── rock.txt
│   └── water.txt

There are two major issues causing this behaviour.

1. Assuming you are currently in solid/ directory, you need to reference the relative path of the liquid/ directory. Since it resides in the same level as the parent directory of water.txt file, you need to use .. (double dots) according to the unix convention. ( for more context read dot definition )

    # currently in solid directory $ pwd /c/Users/USER/Desktop/solid # move file to liquid directory ✔ $ mv water.txt../liquid/

2. In Unix based systems, directories are typically represented by it's name followed by a front slash / , not the other way around. Ex: music/ . In fact, putting / in front of a directory name is prohibited in both Windows and Linux . Moreover, when the two arguments are in the same directory, mv command interprets it as a rename operation on the first argument.

    # git bash thinks /liquid is a file in current directory; rename operation fails ❌ $ mv water.txt /liquid # git bash thinks liquid to be in upper level; no renaming; move succeeds ✔ $ mv water.txt../liquid/