filesstrings (version 3.4.0)

move_files: Move files around.

Description

Move specified files into specified directories

Usage

move_files(files, destinations, overwrite = FALSE)
file.move(files, destinations, overwrite = FALSE)

Value

Invisibly, a logical vector with a TRUE for each time the operation succeeded and a FALSE for every fail.

Arguments

files

A character vector of files to move (relative or absolute paths).

destinations

A character vector of the destination directories into which to move the files.

overwrite

Allow overwriting of files? Default no.

Details

If there are $n$ files, there must be either $1$ or $n$ directories. If there is one directory, then all $n$ files are moved there. If there are $n$ directories, then each file is put into its respective directory. This function also works to move directories.

If you try to move files to a directory that doesn't exist, the directory is first created and then the files are put inside.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
dir.create("dir")
files <- c("1litres_1.txt", "1litres_30.txt", "3litres_5.txt")
file.create(files)
file.move(files, "dir")
}