[SunHELP] moving directories

[Edward Chase]

mv olddir newdir

Although now that I'm thinking about it, this may only work if they are in 
the same filesystem.

I know I've seen some tar or cpio commands with some piping that would 
work.  Since I'm not that proficient, I usually tar up the old directory to 
a file and untar it to the new directory.  That works fine if you've got 
the drive space.

Oh, one gotcha here as well...  I believe it was Solaris 2.6 I got bit with 
once.  Tar'ing as root would not preserve ownership (or was it mv?)  I 
found a patch for that however...


At 12:23 PM 11/30/2000 -0500, robert.fuerst at sylvania.com wrote:
>OK - how do I move an entire directory to a new name?
>
>Thanks,
>1st
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