From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 21:10:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD6616A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:10:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from prosporo.hedron.org (hedron.org [66.11.182.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2575843D39 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:10:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ean@hedron.org) Received: from www.hedron.org (localhost.hedron.org [127.0.0.1]) by prosporo.hedron.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411FBC12C; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:10:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from 216.220.59.169 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ean); by www.hedron.org with HTTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:10:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <2971.216.220.59.169.1109970659.squirrel@216.220.59.169> In-Reply-To: <19734.64.142.107.68.1109969251.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> References: <200503042035.j24KZCMv023724@mail-core.space2u.com> <19734.64.142.107.68.1109969251.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:10:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Ean Kingston" To: "Sebastian" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:10:58 -0000 >> 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. someone else posted the cpio method so I'll skip that. I've been know to use dump and restore when the data was especially fragile but usually go with the mv command. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/