move exited with code 1

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Does anybody know what causes the "move" command in the windows shell to exit with code 1 ? Any error messages I've been able to find by Googling around are very vague, saying just "invalid function". The cause of this is trying to use the "move" command in a Visual Studio 2010 post-build step. I'm using something similar to move /Y srcfileanddir destfileanddir

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '11 at 19:30

Command line errors for windows: http://www.hiteksoftware.com/knowledge/articles/049.htm (no affiliation)

Error: 1 Incorrect function : Action has attempted to execute non-recognized command in Windows command prompt cmd.exe.

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '11 at 06:02

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I finally found the problem. A couple of the paths had extra slashes, so there would be a \ separating directories rather than \, and that's what caused it to mess up. The weird thing is that this only happened when the 'move' command was invoked from within Visual Build Pro, not from the command line.

answered Jul 19 '11 at 06:02

Alex Marshall

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Also spaces in the sourcepath could cause this. Adding "" around solved it for me. – Remco Jul 08 '14 at 12:41

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 13 '23 at 10:17

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ERRORCODE 1 is set when no files have been found to move.

answered Jan 13 '23 at 10:17

Herbert

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Reference? How would one determine if there was an actual error or just no files to move? – malthe Feb 28 '23 at 13:22
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no reference, just experience! – Herbert Mar 01 '23 at 15:04

move exited with code 1

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