Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Joachim Dagerot
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for your suggestion. >> >> Unfortunately your commands will not affect the root fo

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-04 22:13, Joachim Dagerot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestion. You're welcome, but *please* do not post replies _before_ the text to which you reply. It's extremely annoying to read the reply then. >>> The best suggestion was from >>> http://badgertronics.com/kno

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Pat Maddox
Or even in one command... % mv /home/user/level1 /root/ On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:29:57 -0700, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong with a > %mv /home/user/level1 / > %mv /level1 /root > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:13:05 +0100, Joachim Dagerot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Pat Maddox
What's wrong with a %mv /home/user/level1 / %mv /level1 /root On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:13:05 +0100, Joachim Dagerot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestion. > > Unfortunately your commands will not affect the root folder of the hierarchy. > I must create a directory in the dest

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Joachim Dagerot
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:

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Kingston
>> 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:

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-04 21:35, Joachim Dagerot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/kno

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Sebastian
> 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 /

Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Joachim Dagerot
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 cv