Merging file sub-trees

Lee D. Rothstein lee at veritech.com
Tue Jun 3 10:41:37 EDT 2003


Results of the merge move suggestions & testing:

Thanks, youse guys.

I've always wanted to use the '&&' construction && now I have!

10Q,

too2Lee, yours ;-)

#
# Merge Move -- mmv
#

# cp -a $1 $2 && rm -rf $1              # Woiks!
# cp -r $1/* c                          # Doesn't work
# cp -a --reply=yes $1 $2/ && rm -fR $1 # '--reply' not recognized

cp -a  $1 $2/ && rm -fR $1 #

# Only GOD (GNU's Other Directory utility) can make a tree!


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