Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

[Pat Maddox]

Or even in one command...
% mv /home/user/level1 /root/


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:29:57 -0700, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with a
> %mv /home/user/level1 /
> %mv /level1 /root
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:13:05 +0100, Joachim Dagerot <jd at dagerot.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your suggestion.
> >
> > Unfortunately your commands will not affect the root folder of the hierarchy. I must create a directory in the destination path with the same name of the folder where my data is in. example:
> >
> > /home/user/level1/l2/l3/l4
> >
> > I would like to move level1 to a new location:
> >
> > mvdir /home/user/level1 /root/
> >
> > That would be awsome!
> >
> >
> > >> The best suggestion was from
> > >> http://badgertronics.com/knowledge/one.adp?parent=25:
> > >>
> > >> To move /tmp/blarg to /var:
> > >> % cd /tmp
> > >> % tar cvf - blarg | (cd /var; tar xf -)
> > >>
> > >> I bet there must be atleast one utils like a binary named "mvdir" or
> > >> similar that simply taked two directory names as argument. But I can't
> > >> find any.
> > >>
> > >> How do you guys move around your directory structures from prompt?
> > >
> > >I have used the following many times, with very good results:
> > >
> > >       # cd /source/path
> > >       # find . | cpio -p -dmvu /destination/dir
> >
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