gopass/docs/commands/move.md

move command

Note: The implementations for copy and move are exactly the same. The only difference is that move will remove the source after a successful copy.

The move command works like the Unix mv or rsync binaries. It allows moving either single entries or whole folders around. Moving across mounts is supported.

If the source is a directory, the source directory is re-created at the destination if no trailing slash is found. Otherwise the contained secrets are placed into the destination directory (similar to what rsync does).

Please note that move will always decrypt the source and re-encrypt at the destination.

Moving a secret onto itself is a no-op.

Synopsis

# Overwrite new/leaf
$ gopass move path/to/leaf new/leaf
# Move the content of path/to/somedir to new/dir/somedir
$ gopass move path/to/somedirdir new/dir
# Does nothing
$ gopass move entry entry

Modes of operation

• Move a single secret from source to destination
• Move a folder of secrets, possibly with sub folders, from source to destination

Flags

Flag	Aliases	Description
--force	-f	Overwrite existing destination without asking.

Details

• To simplify the implementation and support multiple backends a copy or move operation will always decrypt and re-encrypt all affected secrets. Even if moving encrypted files around might be possible.
• You can move a secret to another secret, i.e. overwrite the destination. But gopass won't let you move a directory over a file. In that case you have to delete the destination first.