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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move directory recursive and leave symlinks at source Post 303009402 by vbe on Thursday 14th of December 2017 04:25:55 AM
Old 12-14-2017
In other words, there will be activity going on in that directory while hoping to move...

Well unless your OS has special filesystem facilities theres very little chance to achieve what you want, the only thing I can think of is snapshots...
Then in command line or scripting the fact filenames can include spaces makes thing more hazardous, not impossible but that means needs monitoring to see if all is going well, so the task is not that easy if you hope to do it online
Offline the best tool to use in such case is cpio
Good luck
 

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