Move conda environments to a new location on your Linux system.

move-conda-envs.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo "Begin environment relocation."
NEW_ENV_DIR=$1
BASE_ENV=$(conda info --base)

#########################################
#
# Install jq locally
#
#########################################

mkdir -p ~/.local/tmp/bin
wget https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.6/jq-linux64 -O ~/.local/tmp/bin/jq
chmod +x ~/.local/tmp/bin/jq
export PATH=~/.local/tmp/bin:$PATH

#########################################
#
# Relocate conda environments
#
#########################################

mkdir -p $NEW_ENV_DIR
conda config --add envs_dirs $NEW_ENV_DIR

for i in $(conda env list --json | jq '.envs | .[]'); do
  i=$(sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//' <<< $i)
  if [ $(basename $BASE_ENV) != $(basename $i) ]; then
    conda env export -p $i > tmp.yaml
    conda remove -p $i --all -y
    conda create -p $NEW_ENV_DIR/$(basename $i) -y
    sed -i "1d" tmp.yaml
    sed -i "$(wc -l < tmp.yaml)d" tmp.yaml
    conda env update -p $NEW_ENV_DIR/$(basename $i) -f tmp.yaml
  fi
done

#########################################
#
# Clean up environment
#
#########################################

chmod -R ug+rwx $NEW_ENV_DIR
rm -rf ~/.local/tmp
rm -f tmp.yaml

echo "Environment relocation finished."

Example command:

bash move-conda-envs.sh /path/to/new/envs/stack