I used yours because it came in first.  I don't think I had any dotfiles
though.

Thanks everyone.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Command to move everything up a directory

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:24, Adam Thornton wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:00, Marcy Cortes wrote:
> > I need a mv incantation to move everything up a directory, i.e. change:
> >
> > /my/dir/dir/files to
> > /my/dir/files
>
> cd /my/dir/dir
> mv * ..

Other people's suggestions are better, as this does not move dotfiles, does
it?

Adam

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