[CLUG] mv and dirs...

[R.Y.Fixer]

cd /files/archives/; tar cBf - . | (cd /files/; tar  xBfpv -)
rm -rf /files/archives/dir-[1-5]




On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:13, Baldwin_James at emc.com wrote:
> [SORRY ABOUT PREVIOUS INCOMPLETE POST   DAMN...OUTLOOK]
> 
> Hi all...
> 
> I am baffled by something which may be simple..I must be doing something
> stupid..
> 
> I have some dirs/files I want to move into existing child directories but
> when a directory already exists for a dir I am trying to move over, mv will
> just complain with the usual (/mv: /dir/dir/dir is a directory) and it will
> fail to copy that directory and all child files/dirs within it..
> 
> Let me illustrate...
> 
> I have these which I want to move back into position..
> E.g.
> /files/archive/2001-01/<load of files>
> /files/archive/2001-02/<load of files>
> /files/archive/2001-03/<load of files>
> /files/archive/2001-04/<load of files>
> /files/archive/2001-05/<load of files>
> 
> I want to put these back into an existing directory of /files
> existing dir ls is 
> /files/2001-01/
> /files/2001-02/
> /files/2001-03/
> 
> Now, if I ' mv -i /files/archive/* /files/ '  the 2001-01,2,3 will fail with
> (mv: /files/2001-1 is a directory) but the 2001-4,5 will be fine as no dir
> currently exists for them.
> 
> 
> I am thinking of explicitly specifying filenames for the move by a find .
> -print | xargs, but is there any other way around this?
> Copy is not an option....with the F/s being 93% full
> 
> TIA,
> 
> James.
> 
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