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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • I just tried your use case, and it did move the files to the correct folder.

    using zsh:

     user@computer  ~  touch test.jpg
     user@computer  ~  touch test2.jpg
     user@computer  ~  mv test.jpg ./Public 
     user@computer  ~  mv test2.jpg $_
     user@computer  ~  ls ./Public 
    test2.jpg  test.jpg
     user@computer  ~  
    

    using bash:

    [user@computer Public]$ mkdir test
    [user@computer Public]$ ls
    test  test2.jpg  test.jpg
    [user@computer Public]$ mv test.jpg ./test
    [user@computer Public]$ mv test2.jpg $_
    [user@computer Public]$ ls
    test
    [user@computer Public]$ ls test/
    test2.jpg  test.jpg
    [user@computer Public]$ 
    

    using bash and full path:

    [user@computer Public]$ ls
    test  test2.jpg  test.jpg
    [user@computer Public]$ mv test.jpg /home/user/Public/test
    [user@computer Public]$ mv test2.jpg $_
    [user@computer Public]$ ls
    test
    [user@computer Public]$ ls test/
    test2.jpg  test.jpg
    [user@computer Public]$ 
    

    What shell are you using? You can check it by using echo $0.

     user@computer  ~  echo $0
    /usr/bin/zsh
    
    [user@computer ~]$ echo $0
    /bin/bash
    

    I can’t reproduce it, even when putting the directory path in quotes, it still simply moved the file.