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SnEptUne
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 Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:47 am Post subject: How to move all content of directories to another one? |
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Hi,
Does anyone know how to move the content of a directory to another directory which contains similar content. For example, I have two directories dir1 and dir2 and their content is as follows:
| Code: | dir1/
base/
...
docs/
...
exec/
...
dir2/
base/
...
docs/
...
exec/
...
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Where "..." denotes files. Iniuitively, I would execute
However, I would receive this error:
mv: cannot overwrite directory `dir2/base`
mv: cannot overwrite directory `dir2/docs`
mv: cannot overwrite directory `dir2/exec`
cp and rm is not an option due to a very limited disk space.
In the other word, how can I merge two directory with only mv command on a diskspace critical environment?[/code]
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BWoso
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:42 am Post subject: |
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If you are planning on copying over the files/folders in dir2 why don't you just rm -frv dir2/* And if you are not planning on copying over them just rename the files/folders in dir1 so they are not the same as in dir2?
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BlackEdder
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | mv: cannot overwrite directory `dir2/base`
mv: cannot overwrite directory `dir2/docs`
mv: cannot overwrite directory `dir2/exec` |
AFAIK it should still have copied the files into the new directory. |
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SnEptUne
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Unfortunately, there isn't just 3 directory. There are over 12 directories and each directories have subfolder. I can't rm -fr dir2/* because there are some files in dir2/* that dir1/ does not have and vice-versa. It doesn't have to be a command, I am thinking of a script. However, I am terrible at writting shell script. Does anyone have any idea?
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SnEptUne
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Rsync would just sync two directories instead of merging them. The end result would be two set of directories with the same content, which is not feasible for a disk space limited partition.
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Jake
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | cd dir1
for i in `find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2` ; do mv $i ../dir2/$i ; done |
The for loop probably won't like spaces or some other characters, so it's not a perfect solution. |
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