Moving files AND directories with mv command

[paCkeTroUTer]

I am trying to move all the contents of the current directory I am in into an other directory. I gave the following command but it moves only the files not the directories and sub-directories/files in it.

bash-2.05a$ mv ./*.* ../testbed/

 

I am sure its something simple ... which I coudn't find in the man pages(or am I blind?) :unsure:

 

Thanks

Jeffery

[tyme]

mv ./* ../testbed

 

that should do it for you. mv automatically does recursive. your problem was using ./*.* because directories would not have a dot anywhere in them, unless of course you place a dot somewhere in their name.

 

mv * ../testbed

will also work

[paCkeTroUTer]

thanks, but that example gives me the following results:

bash-2.05a$ mv ./ ../testbed/
mv: cannot overwrite directory `../testbed/.'
bash-2.05a$ mv ./ ../testbed
mv: cannot overwrite directory `../testbed/.'

 

testbed directory already exists... do I have to delete it before doing it ?

 

 

[edit].... ooops sorry... re-trying again with the proper code....

Edited November 29, 2003 by paCkeTroUTer

[tyme]

sorry i corrected myself while you were reading my unedited post, please re-read my post for the correction. i forgot an *

[paCkeTroUTer]

all good mate. Thanks. :) :)

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[Cannonfodder]

This has always worked good for me when I want to cp a partition..

 

cp -pax {source} {dest}

 

I'm no fan of a mv command when dealing with a large set of files :) *replay* WHERE ARE MY FILES???? WHERE DID THEY GO???