mmv

by Vladimir Lanin
maintained by Reuben Thomas rrt@sc3d.org

mmv is a program to move/copy/link multiple files according to a set of wildcard patterns. This multiple action is performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of files due to collisions of target names with existing filenames or with other target names. Furthermore, before doing anything, mmv attempts to detect any errors that would result from the entire set of actions specified and gives the user the choice of either aborting before beginning, or proceeding by avoiding the offending parts.

mmv is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option), any later version. See the file COPYING for more details.

Installation and compatibility

mmv should work on any POSIX-1.2001-compatible system.

Reports on compatibility, whether positive or negative, are welcomed.

Building from a release tarball

A C compiler, libgc and help2man are required to build from source. For building from git, see below.

To build mmv from a release tarball, run

./configure && make && make check

Building mmv from git

The GNU autotools are required: automake, autoconf and libtool. Gnulib is also used, with a third-party bootstrap module; these are installed automatically.

To build from a Git repository, first run

./bootstrap

Then see "Building from source" above.

Use

See mmv(1) (run man mmv).