Problem finding my folder via terminal

[Cameron Simpson]

On 09Jun2018 22:50, Tamara Berger <brgrt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:05 AM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>> A third possibility is that you made a mymodules somewhere else (such as in
>> your top level home directory), and later decided to put it on your Desktop to
>> make it easy to find/access.
>
>I did save it in My Documents first and then moved it to my desktop.
>But I did not write code. I just dragged and dropped.
>
>>So you might have decided to "mv" your "mymodules"
>> folder into the Desktop like this:
>>
>>   mv mymodules Desktop/mymodules
>>
>> which is fine. But mv has some interesting behaviour. If "mymodules" didn't
>> exist in Desktop, then youre "mymodules" will get moved into the Desktop.
>> However, if mv's final argument is an _existing_ directory, mv puts things
>> inside it. So if you went:
>>
>>   mkdir Desktop/mymodules
>>   mv mymodules Desktop/mymodules
>>
>> then mv would put your top level "mymodules" _inside_ the "Desktop/mymodules"
>> folder that already exists, producing the structure you currently have.
>
>I didn't do any of this. Could dragging and dropping have created the
>duplicate folder?

Maybe? If you'd premade an empty "Desktop/mymodules" first, and happened to 
drop the "My Documents/mymodules" onto it instead of "into" the wider "Desktop" 
folder.  Again, just guessing.

We should just get on; just pay close attention next time you move things 
around like this and see if anything suggests itself as an explaination.

BTW, congrats: a fine inline response!

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>