Failed to move: can't sync or move files on overlapping remotes

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Quick question.

I want to move all files starting with abc in a remote (at root) to a directory inside that remote. I tried several variants of the following (with and without trailing /)

rclone --include "/abc*" move gdrive:/ gdrive:/DIR -vv --dry-run

and I get the error in the title. Any suggestions? Maybe it's just a /.

I am a new user and sorry for my lack of familiarity with syntax.

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Yes, indeed I tried this first:

rclone move gdrive:/abc* gdrive:/DIR

which gives the error "Failed to move: directory not found"

Without wildcard *, it works for one file. The issue is the expansion.

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This is all files that start with a, or b or c.

Does it work with abc*:

'rclone move remote:/abc* remote:/DIR -vv'

(like moving abc1, abc2, abc3, ...).

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ok. now i understand.
you want to move, from the root of a remote, files that start with abc to a subfolder of that root of the remote named DIR.

you cannot use sync, you cannot use move, but you can use copy.

these commands

echo "----before----"
rclone ls remote:/
rclone lsf remote:/ --include="/abc*" | rclone copy remote:/ remote:/dir --include-from=- -vv
rclone delete remote:/ --include="/abc*"
echo "----after----"
rclone ls remote:/

give this output

----before----
9 abc1
9 abc2
1 abc3
1 abc4
2020/04/21 01:33:11 DEBUG : abc1: MD5 = 25f9e794323b453885f5181f1b624d0b OK
2020/04/21 01:33:11 INFO : abc1: Copied (server side copy)
2020/04/21 01:33:11 DEBUG : abc4: MD5 = c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b OK
2020/04/21 01:33:11 INFO : abc4: Copied (server side copy)
2020/04/21 01:33:11 DEBUG : abc3: MD5 = c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b OK
2020/04/21 01:33:11 INFO : abc3: Copied (server side copy)
2020/04/21 01:33:11 DEBUG : abc2: MD5 = 25f9e794323b453885f5181f1b624d0b OK
2020/04/21 01:33:11 INFO : abc2: Copied (server side copy)
2020/04/21 01:33:11 INFO :
Transferred: 20 / 20 Bytes, 100%, 46 Bytes/s, ETA 0s
Transferred: 4 / 4, 100%
Elapsed time: 0.4s

----after----
9 dir/abc1
9 dir/abc2
1 dir/abc3
1 dir/abc4

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Yes, thank you. That should work!

So include works with copy and delete, but not with move:

'rclone --include '/abc*' copy gdrive:/ gdrive:/dir'

'rclone --include '/abc*' delete gdrive:/'

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https://rclone.org/filtering/
The filters are applied for the copy, sync, move, ls, lsl, md5sum, sha1sum, size, delete and check operations. Note that purge does not obey the filters

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But the following stop on error:

rclone move gdrive:/abc* gdrive:/dir

rclone --include "/abc*" move gdrive:/ gdrive:/dir

The copy and delete behave as expected in bash. Move seems different.

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each program has its own syntax and quirks.

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Yes, I agree. Thanks a lot for your help!

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