How to move all files to another folder besides folder using terminal?

Question

linux

I have a lot of videos on the subject of filters in the Videos folder.
To clean things up a little, I created a filters folder in the Videos folder where I want to move all the videos on this topic.

So I can't write:
mv /home/user/Videos/* /home/user/Videos/filters

Because then the filters folder, which is in Videos, will be copied to itself.

Answer 1

Well, if you need to transfer only files, but do not touch other directories, then you can try
mv /home/user/Videos/*.* /home/user/Videos/filters
. Since files usually have extensions.

Answer 2

$ cd $HOME/Videos
$ mv !(filters) filters

if it doesn’t work, then you need to enable the regular expression expansion is enabled or not, you can look with the command
$ shopt -s extglob

$ shopt
...
extglob        	on
...

Answer 3

Everything is easier! No need to create problems where there are none.
With the specified command, everything will be transferred as it should, mv will only swear:

mv: невозможно перенести 'videos' в свой собственный подкаталог, 'videos/videos'

The rest will be moved to the specified videos directory.
Well, in your version, filters. Just created for testing, checked.
For the test, make a separate directory and you can add directory files in it in the same way. Well, check it out. You never know how you have something configured in Ubuntu ...