In the Terminal app on your Mac, use the mv command to move files or folders from one location to another on the same computer. The mv command moves the file or folder from its old location and puts it in the new location. For example, to move a file from your Downloads folder to a Work folder in your Documents folder.
Terminal User Guide
In Terminal, you can move and copy files locally or remotely using the
mv , cp , and scp command-line tools.
Tip: It’s easier to move and copy files using the Finder. See Organize files in folders.
Move a file or folder locally
See the mv command man page.
Download File From TerminalCopy a file or folder locally
See the cp command man page.
Copy a file or folder remotely![]()
See the scp command man page.
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Save yourself some time, and merge .csv files with one easy command in Terminal.
Let's say you have a bunch of .csv files in a folder. You want to merge them into one file. How to do that?
Easy: use 'cat'
Cat is a UNIX program that lets you concatenate files, which is what we need. It's so simple that you don't need installable apps for it. For those who want the code first and the explanation later, here is the code:
That's it.
Copy Directory Mac Terminal
Translated, it says: 'take all files in this folder that end with '.csv', and put them in 'merged.csv' (effectively merging them).
Bonus tip: the 'open here in Terminal' service in Mac OS X 10.7+
It is important that this command is executed in the right directory. You don't want all existing .csv files in your entire computer to be altered this way, now do you? :) You can use the terminal to navigate to the folder (as described below), but you can also use a default Mac OS X service that functions in much the same way as its counterpart in Windows: 'open here in Terminal'. It works like this.
First, go to:
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services and select New terminal at Folder :
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From now on, when you select a folder in the Finder, you can right-click and find it under
Services :
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Here are some images that may help. I had a bunch of .csv files that contained exports of Google search engine results (made by the SEOmoz toolbar). The English results were all put in a folder named
en inside the folder /meta/csv :
I also made sure that every single .csv only contained the data I needed. In my case, I needed to delete the first 7 rows that were included in every export:
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Back to the terminal. I used
cd to go to that folder in my terminal (or use the 'New terminal at Folder' Service I described earlier):
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You can see it below, i'm at
macbook en (the folder en on my macbook) and my username is monchito . I then executed the command:
The file
merged.csv was successfully added to the folder:
A quick check shows that the newly created .csv file contains way more rows than the individual files, so it probably worked :p
Now I can merge a great number of .csv files into one file quickly, and move on with my analysis.
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