How to move a file present in a folder other than the deploy folder used for creating a build

 i have a deploy folder which i use to create builds, i have to put all scripts that i have to deploy in the deploy folder and create the build, but i want to keep the scripts at a different location and in deploy folder just put the path of the files that are to be deployed, i have shell script that reads the paths mentioned in the file containing the links placed in the deploy folder, but when it tries to move, it gets error 'no such file or directory', my structure is  ROOT contains deploy and scripts folder, scripts folder contains scripts and deploy has a file that has path of the scripts in script folder, i am specifying path as /ROOT/SCRIPT/SCRIPT.TXT