Move first number of files

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If i wanted to move the first 500 files i'd do

mv `ls | head -500` ./subfolder1/

can i do this via rclone somehow?

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Sure, use rclone -R lsf --files-only source: | head -500 > files to generate the list then rclone move -P --files-from files source: dest:

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oh i'd only be doing this on the remote. i'm not moving from local to remote.

rclone -R lsf --files-only remote:dir1 remote:dir1/dir\ 2 | head -500 > files

since dir 2 has a space?

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i mean

rclone -R lsf --files-only remote:dir1 | head -500 > files 
rclone move -P --files-from files remote:dir1 remote:dir\ 2

?
or just wrap with quote?

rclone move -P --files-from files "remote:dir1" "remote:dir 2"
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2019/08/23 08:43:55 Fatal error: unknown shorthand flag: 'R' in -R

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quotes is reccommended

Put the -R after the lsf it isn't a global flag (my mistake!), so rclone lsf -R --files-only ...

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