Cannot move or delete some applications/applications

I'm in the middle of doing a "spring cleaning" of my Mac and part of this means remove rarely or never used apps from my Applications folder.  Many of them I would like to transfer to a separate folder in my downloads folder, which would later be copied to a disk in case use never need arises, others, I just want to remove.

A number of them pop up with the following (using PathFinder) message: this point is not movable.  You do not have sufficient permissions to move the point of xxx.  Jump - authenticate - Stop.  An authorization in PathFinder is no nothing - the app remains in place.

If I try using the Finder, the action creates an alias to the new location.  If I try to trash in the Finder, I must grant permission.  It is moved to the trash can I move it to the trash on my external drive of the target and again I have to grant permission.

Now, I have dozens of these apps and I would like to streamline this process to allow me to simply move the application to a temporary folder on my boot drive, then move this entire folder on the external drive later.

I am comfortable using Terminal Server, if that's what it takes.  Or is there some CLI who will grant me permission to complete these deletions / moves without the added folderol that OS X saddle us with?  There must be a way to substitute wisely approach Apple mother hen for the Organization of the Application.  I can't even move an application out of the Applications folder?  Give me a break!

Thanks for thinking of it.  Any help or links to advice would be really appreciated.

I use a 2012 end Mac Mini, OS X 10.5.

The Applications in El Capitan folder is locked by SIP. You can remove only the things that you put there via drag / move. If you used an installer, or they are Apple "OS" apps, they cannot be deleted.

You can always remove them if you feel really obsessed by temporarily disabling the SIP, or starting from another Mac or external hard drive.

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