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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Linux copy directory without using cp -r or any variant Post 302892757 by rbatte1 on Friday 14th of March 2014 12:08:36 PM
Old 03-14-2014
The only reason I can think of not to use cp is because it has been deleted or moved. I speak from experience of a production system where a change tried to move / and it's contents into a subdirectory. Smilie It got quite a long way down too, moving /dev amongst other things which made new login impossible even on the console.

Can you explain why you need such an odd thing? It might illicit better responses.



Robin
 

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mvdir(1M)																 mvdir(1M)

NAME
mvdir - move a directory SYNOPSIS
dir newdir DESCRIPTION
moves one directory tree into another existing directory (within the same file system), or renames a directory without moving it. dir must be an existing directory. If newdir does not exist but the directory that would contain it does, dir is moved and/or renamed to newdir. Otherwise, newdir must be an existing directory not already containing an entry with the same name as the last pathname component of dir. In this case, dir is moved and becomes a subdirectory of newdir. The last pathname component of dir is used as the name for the moved directory. refuses to move dir if the path specified by newdir would be a descendent directory of the path specified by dir. Such cases are not allowed because cyclic sub-trees would be created as in the case, for example, of which is prohibited. does not allow directory to be moved. Only users who have appropriate privileges can use EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. AUTHOR
was developed by OSF and HP. SEE ALSO
cp(1), mkdir(1), mv(1). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
mvdir(1M)
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