rclone/docs/content/commands/rclone_move.md

title	description	slug	url
rclone move	Move files from source to dest.	rclone_move	/commands/rclone_move/

rclone move

Move files from source to dest.

Synopsis

Moves the contents of the source directory to the destination directory. Rclone will error if the source and destination overlap and the remote does not support a server-side directory move operation.

If no filters are in use and if possible this will server-side move source:path into dest:path. After this source:path will no longer exist.

Otherwise for each file in source:path selected by the filters (if any) this will move it into dest:path. If possible a server-side move will be used, otherwise it will copy it (server-side if possible) into dest:path then delete the original (if no errors on copy) in source:path.

Note that the destination is always a directory. If the path does not exist, it will be created as a directory and the contents of the source will be moved into it. This is the case even if the source path points to a file. If you want to move a single file to a different name you must use moveto instead.

For example, given the command:

rclone move source:sourcepath/one.txt dest:destpath/one.txt

Rclone will create a directory dest:destpath/one.txt and put the source file in there:

dest:destpath/one.txt/one.txt

Not move the single source file into the given destination path, which would be the result if moveto had been used instead:

dest:destpath/one.txt

If you want to delete empty source directories after move, use the --delete-empty-src-dirs flag.

See the --no-traverse option for controlling whether rclone lists the destination directory or not. Supplying this option when moving a small number of files into a large destination can speed transfers up greatly.

Important: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the --dry-run or the --interactive/-i flag.

Note: Use the -P/--progress flag to view real-time transfer statistics.

rclone move source:path dest:path [flags]

Options

      --create-empty-src-dirs   Create empty source dirs on destination after move
      --delete-empty-src-dirs   Delete empty source dirs after move
  -h, --help                    help for move

See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

SEE ALSO

• rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.