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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:13:05 +0100
From:      "Joachim Dagerot" <jd@dagerot.com>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?
Message-ID:  <200503042113.j24LD51s026558@mail-core.space2u.com>

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Thanks for your suggestion. 

Unfortunately your commands will not affect the root folder of the hierarchy. I must create a directory in the destination path with the same name of the folder where my data is in. example:

/home/user/level1/l2/l3/l4

I would like to move level1 to a new location:

mvdir /home/user/level1 /root/


That would be awsome!


>> 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?
>
>I have used the following many times, with very good results:
>
>	# cd /source/path
>	# find . | cpio -p -dmvu /destination/dir






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