move_files: Move files around.

In filesstrings: Handy File and String Manipulation

Move files around.

Description

Move specified files into specified directories

Usage

move_files(files, destinations, overwrite = FALSE)

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

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.

Value

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

Examples

## Not run: 
dir.create("dir")
files <- c("1litres_1.txt", "1litres_30.txt", "3litres_5.txt")
file.create(files)
file.move(files, "dir")

## End(Not run)

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