Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:47:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Sebastian" <list@mindling.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice? Message-ID: <19734.64.142.107.68.1109969251.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> In-Reply-To: <200503042035.j24KZCMv023724@mail-core.space2u.com> References: <200503042035.j24KZCMv023724@mail-core.space2u.com>
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> I have spent 20 minutes or so googling around to find the best way to > _move_ a complete directory hierarchy. But must admitt that I haven't > foundmany good answers. > > The best suggestion was from > http://badgertronics.com/knowledge/one.adp?parent=25: > > To move /tmp/blarg to /var: > % cd /tmp > % tar cvf - blarg | (cd /var; tar xf -) > > > I bet there must be atleast one utils like a binary named "mvdir" or > similar that simply taked two directory names as argument. But I can't > find any. > > How do you guys move around your directory structures from prompt? > > //J I use: Quick and dirty: $ mv /tmp/blarg /var/blarg If it's really important stuff: $ rsync -a /tmp/blarg /var/ $ rm -rf /tmp/blarg I'm interested to hear others' methods.
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