Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:03:59 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't figure out an one-liner Message-ID: <20050112210359.GN3639@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <41E58A4E.9000105@raad.tartu.ee> References: <41E58A4E.9000105@raad.tartu.ee>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:36:30PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a directory structure like this
>
> /home
> /joe
> /peter
> /bill
> ... etc
>
> I'm trying to move some (but not all) subdirectories of /home to
> /newhome, using tar. I'm doing this as root on FreeBSD 4.10, the shell
> is csh. I'd like to get it done with one command line.
>
> I'm trying variations of this command
>
> # pwd
> /newhome
>
> # for luser in 'joe peter bill' { tar cf - -C /home $luser | tar xf - }
>
> ... but I keep getting error messages that luser is undefined.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Are /home and /newhome on different filesystems? What wrong with a
simple mv? For example:
# mv joe peter bill /newhome
If the directories are on the same filesystem the move won't require
anything but some shuffling of metadata and will happen pretty much
instantaneously.
Nathan
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