Musaul Karim <mus...@googlemail.com> wrote: > When I run ... > > $ mv -v 1 /var/tmp/ > > ... on a two level deep directory structure with files file1 to 5
> I'll try the 'find' way the next time I need to copy > large numbers of files. Ouch, I got the impression that you only were moving files, not recursively moving directories. The solution I gave with find will not help as it only makes sure that each directory is completely moved in order. To get the behaviour you want it might be easier to use tar: tar --remove-files -cf - . | ( cd /new/path ; tar -xvf - ) Tar will give you some ugly error messages directories changing and being unable to remove current directory but at least the files will be copied and removed in the order that you want. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: r...@localhost postmas...@localhost
