topic Re: mv question in Operating System - HP-UX

mv question

chapaya_1 — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:09:52 GMT

Hi ,

I have this directory /appl/appl ,
I want to move the whole directory to /appl .

What is the best way ?

BYE

Re: mv question

Michael Tully — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:14:57 GMT

cd /appl/appl
mv * ..

rm -f appl1

Re: mv question

Mark Grant — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:15:53 GMT

mv /appl/* /appl
rmdir /appl/appl

Re: mv question

Franky_1 — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:18:06 GMT

Hi,

just type

cd /appl/appl
tar cfv - .|(cd ../; tar xfv -)
cd ..
rm -r appl

That's it

Franky

Re: mv question

Frederic Sevestre — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:19:15 GMT

Hi,

You can try

cd /appl
tar cf - appl | (cd / ; tar xvf -)
rmdir /appl/appl

Regards,
Frederic

Re: mv question

YoungHwan, Ko — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:21:22 GMT

# cd /appl/appl

# find . -dept -print | cpio -pudmv /appl

# cd /appl

# rm -r /appl/appl

Re: mv question

MarkSyder — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:22:38 GMT

Could I just add to Michael and Mark's excellent answers that you may have files that start with . (dot) so you should also do:

cd /appl/appl
mv .* ..

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: mv question

chapaya_1 — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:36:29 GMT

I got this :

hp1:>pwd
/appl/appl
hp1:>mv * ..
hp1:>ls
.cshrc .exrc .login .profile
hp1:>mv .* ..
mv: ../.: rename: Device busy
mv: .. and .. are identical
hp1:>ll
total 0

The files moved but i got this error ...

Re: mv question

Francisco J. Soler — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:38:26 GMT

Hi,

another way to do it:

cd /
mv /appl/appl /temp_dir
rm -rf /appl
mv /temp_dir /appl

Frank.

Re: mv question

V. Nyga — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:44:19 GMT

Hi,

this happened, because you also tried to moved '.' and '..' in the upper directory.(where this files already exists.)
You can ignore this error message.
But maybe '..' isn't there any more?
Check it with 'll -a'

Then type 'cd /apps' to move one step up.

Volkmar

Re: mv question

Mark Grant — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:53:38 GMT

Actually, mine answer had a bug in it :(

The worry of moving ".*" is that it'll take the current directory and the parent directory too.

Really it should be something like

mv /appl/appl/.[!.]* /appl
mv /appl/appl/* /appl
rmdir /appl/appl

Re: mv question

MarkSyder — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 06:31:15 GMT

Sory, I'd overlooked the fact that it would try to move . and .. : I have mv aliased so it asks for confirmation on each file. Always a good idea (unless there are a very large number of files in the directory).

Mark

Re: mv question

Franky_1 — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 06:34:27 GMT

Hi,

so my solution works and even copies the .dot files.
Wouldn't it be fair to assign points for that?

Franky

Re: mv question

chapaya_1 — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:16:07 GMT

HI ,

You are right Franky ....

BYE

Re: mv question

Francisco J. Soler — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:11:12 GMT

Hi,

I think it is not necessary to perform a tar command, my solution is easier than Franky's solution, only moving directories is enough. Nevertheless Franky's solution is good.

Frank.