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Well, that was easy.

I am using bash. I have been having success working with loops and variables, and what I want to do is get a list of directories in my current directory, and with a...

Given that I don't understand what an exit status is, I was afraid that would be your answer. I just started trying to understand this stuff, and I am sure that one day I will get it. Thanks for...

Cool. Thanks. I am quite a newbie at this, but I think I understand. So || means OR?

e.g. command1 || command2

Command2 would be executed only if command1 is not executed. Correct?

Thanks so much. I could not find any answer to what "&&" means, but I think it is a way to separate many commands so you can write them all on a single line. Is that correct?

I want to move all the files in a given directory up one level.

For example:

Dir1
Subdir1


I want to move all the files in Subdir1 up to Dir1 (then I want to ultimately delete Subdir1)
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