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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