Re: [Alug]Moving a directory up one level

Neil Marjoram <n.marjoram@vam.ac.uk> writes:

Isn't it best to use a tar ?

cd /olddirectory tar cvf - . | (cd /newdirectory ; tar xvf - )

Will put everything across and keep perms / times etc

Why bother when mv does the job faster and more simply? -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/