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

[Mark Grant]

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

[MarkSyder]

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

[Franky_1]

Hi,

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

Franky

[chapaya_1]

HI ,

You are right Franky ....


BYE

[Francisco J. Soler]

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.