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Old 02-20-2007, 11:50 PM
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Thought someone might find this interesting... How to move an entire directory in Linux

mkdir target_directory
cd source_directory
cp -ap . target_directory

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Old 03-22-2007, 05:55 PM
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Nice tip, thank you!
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