mv: cannot stat with *

I can think of 2 possible reasons why this can happen:

1. The source directory may not exist (OR)
2. The source directory might be empty

Ignore if neither!

You need to use $USER for user to expand to your username. /home/user is only valid if you have a user named user. This will work if temp1 and temp2 exists in your home directory

mv /home/$USER/temp1/* /home/$USER/temp2

I'll try to help out and clear up the confusion a little:

• If you want to move a folder and its contents to another one, you enter:

  mv ~/Scripts ~/Podcasts

• If you want to move a folder's contents but not the folder itself to another folder, you must enter, for example, mv ~/Scripts/* ~/Podcasts. You can enter echo ~/Scripts/* to check the folder's content

• (If you also need to know about globstar, which will allow you to recurse through all directory levels, see this article and this one. It can be enabled with shopt -s globstar, but that will need to be put in .bashrc to work permanently.)

(The tilde ~ in ~/Scripts is expanded to /home/mike/ or your user name automatically by the shell)