Move files and folders to parent directory

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The following command will move all files & directories, including hidden files in the current directory to the parent directory.

For example. If you are in /home/user/test and you run this command, it will move all files and directories in /home/user/test to /home/user

bash
find . -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} .. \;

It will throw an error when it tries to move . (current directory) but this will not be an issue:

mv: cannot move `.' to `../.': Device or resource busy

Powershell
Get-ChildItem -Path . -Depth 0 | Move-Item -Destination ..

bash
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} .. \;
mv: cannot move '.' to '../.': Device or resource busy
$ cd ..

Before After

Before	After
bash `$ pwd /home/aiden/tmp/subfolder $ tree . ├── file3 └── folder1 ├── file1 └── folder2 └── file2 3 directories, 3 files`	bash `$ pwd /home/aiden/tmp $ tree . ├── file3 ├── folder1 │ ├── file1 │ └── folder2 │ └── file2 └── subfolder 5 directories, 2 files`

bash
$ pwd
/home/aiden/tmp/subfolder
$ tree
.
├── file3
└── folder1
    ├── file1
    └── folder2
        └── file2

3 directories, 3 files

bash
$ pwd 
/home/aiden/tmp
$ tree
.
├── file3
├── folder1
│   ├── file1
│   └── folder2
│       └── file2
└── subfolder

5 directories, 2 files