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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:35:12 +0100
From:      "Joachim Dagerot" <jd@dagerot.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?
Message-ID:  <200503042035.j24KZCMv023724@mail-core.space2u.com>

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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





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