Moving files in Google Colab

Question

I have I bunch of files in a directory, named like this:

cat.10171.jpg cat.12421.jpg cat.3421.jpg

I want to move part of them to another directory using this from Colab notebook:

!mv cat.{0..499}.jpg /content/train

I have an error:

mv: cannot stat 'cat.{0..499}.jpg': No such file or directory

Any ideas how to do this and what is the reason?

Answer 1

This also worked for me:

shutil.move("path/to/current/file", "path/to/new/destination/for/file")

So:

shutil.move("/content/cat.10171.jpg", "/content/train")