Re: restructure folders

From	Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: restructure folders
Date	2022-01-13 07:10 +0100
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:31:25 +0100
"sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> wrote:

> Is this possible on the commandline?

Yes. The following untested code should do it:

cd /
mv dir1/dirA .
mv dir2/dir* .
rm -r dir1 dir2

In particular, you will lose any files in dir1 and dir2 not specified
in the relevant mv. Also, the wild card specification in line 3 will
grab files as well as directories.

I suggest you make backups first if you don't make them regularly
(which you should).



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