Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:31:20 -0700 From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> To: Joachim Dagerot <jd@dagerot.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice? Message-ID: <810a540e05030413315c850617@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <810a540e05030413297e852b82@mail.gmail.com> References: <200503042113.j24LD51s026558@mail-core.space2u.com> <810a540e05030413297e852b82@mail.gmail.com>
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Or even in one command... % mv /home/user/level1 /root/ On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:29:57 -0700, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote: > What's wrong with a > %mv /home/user/level1 / > %mv /level1 /root > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:13:05 +0100, Joachim Dagerot <jd@dagerot.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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