======Command xmove====== ====Name==== **xmove** Moves/renames an xml file to a filename based on an expression ====Synopsis==== xmove [-x expr] [-d dir] [e extension] [-ns namespace [-ns namespace ...]] [-f] files ====Options==== ||-x,-xpath xpath-expr||Evaluate the xpath expression on each file to generate the basename of the new file|| ||-d,-dir dir|| Specifies a new directory to move the file to|| ||-ns namespace|| Adds namespace declarations. Required if the xpath expression requires namespaces|| ||-f||Force move (deletes target file if it exists)|| ||-mkdir||Create parent directories of target if not exists|| ||files|| List of files to move/rename|| ====Description==== Moves/renames an xml file to a filename based on an expression. For each file given, the xpath-expr is evaluated with the context of the specified file. The result is cast to a string (equivilent to passing the result to the fn:string() function. This because the new basename of the file. The full target filename is composed of [dir][basename][extension] If no [dir] is provided (-d) then the current directory is used if no [extension] is provided then the extension of the current file is used. The xpath expression can be used to create part of the destination directory. For example Move all xml files to a directory equal to the root element name and base name equal to the text value of the child id element. If the XML looks like %%(xml) 123 value %% %% xmove -mkdir -x 'concat(node-name(/node()),"/",/node()/id)' *.xml %% Will move the file to **root/123.xml** ---- [[Commands]] [[CategoryCommands]]