mv question

[chapaya_1]

Hi ,

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

What is the best way ?

BYE

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

cd /appl/appl
mv * ..

rm -f appl1

[Mark Grant]

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

[Franky_1]

Hi,

just type

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

That's it

Franky

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

You can try

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

Regards,
Frederic

[YoungHwan, Ko]

# cd /appl/appl

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

# cd /appl

# rm -r /appl/appl

[MarkSyder]

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)

[chapaya_1]

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 ...

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi,

another way to do it:

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

Frank.

[V. Nyga]

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