Cannot move folder and its content (error -4058)

[gigouni]

Hi,

What's happening

I would like to move a folder and its content to the parent folder through the CLI

move-cli ./dist/transpiled ./dist

but it returns an error

{ Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'my\project\dist\transpiled' -> 'my\project\dist'
  errno: -4048,
  code: 'EPERM',
  syscall: 'rename',
  path: 'my\project\\dist\\transpiled',
  dest: 'C:\\Users\\ngigou\\dev\\apps\\output-labels-backend\\dist' }
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! output-labels@1.0.0 obfuscate: `javascript-obfuscator ./transpiled --output dist && move-cli ./dist/transpiled ./dist`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the output-labels@1.0.0 obfuscate script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\ngigou\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-09-25T07_39_36_012Z-debug.log

The context

I'm transpiling source code to a "transpiled" folder. Then, I obfuscate the transpiled code within a "dist" folder (with javascript-obfuscator). The problem is that the obfuscated code goes to a sub-folder of "dist" instead of directly in "dist". I'm trying to move the content to earn one folder level.

From

|
| dist
| | transpiled
| | | my transpiled and obfuscated code
| transpiled
| src

To

|
| dist
| | my transpiled and obfuscated code
| transpiled
| src

The complete npm script

"obfuscate": "javascript-obfuscator ./transpiled --output dist && move-cli ./dist/transpiled ./dist",

Information

> node -v && npm -v
v8.10.0
5.6.0

• Nom du système d’exploitation : Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel
• Version: 10.0.16299 Numéro 16299

Thanks

[koenig-dominik]

This project just uses mv under the hood. This is only the cli layer to use it in npm scripts and stuff.
I found basically the same issue over there: Issue 21

But this repo wasn't updated for 3 years now, so I guess they won't fix that issue

[gigouni]

Thanks @koenig-dominik for your help. I'll try something else.

[gigouni]

FYI,

Solved it using another npm module, copy-dir-cli. Simple but works great!