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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers find, mv and create unknown parent & subfolders Post 302215072 by vbe on Tuesday 15th of July 2008 12:52:19 PM
Old 07-15-2008
Why not cpio to archive/dept; then rm? you keep the directory structure in that case

Last edited by vbe; 07-15-2008 at 01:53 PM.. Reason: correcting my franglish...
 

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