[ILUG] mv command

[Paolo Marchiori]

you need to copy first and remove after:
rsync -a --del --exclude .dir directory newdirectory && rm -rf directory

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Conor Mac Aoidh<conormacaoidh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out how to put together this UNIX command. This is my
> file structure:
>
> directory/.dir
> directory/subdir
> directory/subdir/.dir
> directory/subdir/sub
> directory/subdir/sub/.dir
> directory/anothersub
> directory/anothersub/.dir
>
> All of the .dir directories have contents as well. What I want is a command
> that will move "directory" to "newdirectory" and leave out all of the .dir
> folders, so that the contents of "newdirectory" will be:
>
> newdirectory/subdir
> newdirectory/subdir/sub
> newdirectory/anothersub
>
> Can anyone suggest such a command?
>
> Thanks
> ---
> Conor
>
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