How to move all files and folders into a subfolder of the same folder

Question

in the gitlab-ci for our automatic deployment pipeline, we need to move all files and folders of the old application into a folder "_backup" in the same root directory.

This is the folder:

This is our approach: mv /mnt/test.local/* /mnt/test.local/_backup

But the error messages are: mv: can't rename '/mnt/test.local/favicon.ico': No such file or directory

I think the problem is that I can not move all files and folders (including "_backup"-folder) into the "_backup"-folder. I read about the extglob shell options, but !(_backup) is not working, is there another way?

Update : I tried @Kent's approach, but somehow it is not working. When I test it locally I get the following error but it works:

$ find ~/Workspace/testingmove/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -path ~/Workspace/testingmove/_backup -prune -o -print|xargs -I{} mv {} -t ~/Workspace/testingmove/_backup
mv: rename /Users/wiesenberg/Workspace/testingmove//_backup to /Users/wiesenberg/Workspace/testingmove/_backup/_backup: Invalid argument
mv: rename -t to /Users/wiesenberg/Workspace/testingmove/_backup/-t: No such file or directory

And when I try it in the gitlab-ci, the following error accurs:

$ find /mnt/test.local/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1  -path /mnt/test.local/_backup -prune -o -print|xargs -I{} mv {} -t /mnt/test.local/_backup/
 mv: unrecognized option: t
 BusyBox v1.31.1 () multi-call binary.
 Usage: mv [-fin] SOURCE DEST
 or: mv [-fin] SOURCE... DIRECTORY

Thanks, Marc

Answer 1

You can use find to exclude the backup directory:

find /YourHome -mindepth 1 -path /YourHome/_backup -prune -o -print|xargs -I{} cp -r {} /YourHome/_backup

Replace the cp command in xargs with mv if you want to do "mv"

update

find /YourHome -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1  -path /YourHome/_backup -prune -o -print|xargs -I{} mv {} -t /YourHome/_backup

Answer 2

My workaround is that I created a two subfolders and routed the Webserver to the subfolder.

- root
  - _backup
  - website