Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:40:37 +0100 From: "Joachim Dagerot" <jd@dagerot.com> To: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice? Message-ID: <200503042140.j24Leb0L028834@mail-core.space2u.com>
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Doesn't work for me: - No such file or directory 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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