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Combining Two Dirs
I have two Directories, foo and foobar.

I want to combine the contents of foo into foobar.

There is probably a simple command for this, but I have yet to find it.

Thanks in advance,
Robert
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mv foo/* foobar/

read the man page for mv. Type man mv
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Ah, thanks!

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