# Permission denied when moving directory to $CIRCLE\_ARTIFACTS **URL:** \ **Category:** Build Environment\ **Created:** [October 22, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/permission-denied-when-moving-directory-to-circle-artifacts/7588 "2016-10-22T10:37:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![olalonde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/olalonde/32/16099_2.png) [@olalonde](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/olalonde)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/permission-denied-when-moving-directory-to-circle-artifacts/7588/1 "2016-10-22T10:37:56Z")
I am getting a “permission denied” error after trying to move a test coverage directory to `$CIRCLE_ARTIFACTS`. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? ```auto mv ./coverage $CIRCLE_ARTIFACTS mv: cannot move ‘./coverage’ to ‘/tmp/circle-artifacts.mRyoLZF/coverage’: Permission denied mv ./coverage $CIRCLE_ARTIFACTS returned exit code 1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![olalonde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/olalonde/32/16099_2.png) [@olalonde](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/olalonde)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/permission-denied-when-moving-directory-to-circle-artifacts/7588/2 "2016-10-22T10:53:43Z")
replaced ```auto - mv ./coverage $CIRCLE_ARTIFACTS ``` with ```auto - sudo mv ./coverage $CIRCLE_ARTIFACTS ``` fixed the problem ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/permission-denied-when-moving-directory-to-circle-artifacts/7588/3 "2018-06-18T11:38:49Z")