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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: trplayer and realplayer
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 11:52:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001701c1c78a$cfc39440$01213e18@OEMCOMPUTER> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203090944530.1064-100000@hudson.valstar.net>

Hi Chuck. How do you mv it so that the directory doesn't get omitted? As an example, I was trying to move an entire directory tree from Cd to hard disk (/usr/src). My syntax was something like this: mv /mnt/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/source /usr/src. This should work under Dos, but doesn't seem to work under Linux. Just to make sure, I added a *.* before the /usr/src. In both cases, I get a message like: mv: directory has been omitted. And it doesn't move anything. In this example, I'm not saying that I am trying to do this, although I did try it before. Basically, what would be the syntax to move a directory tree? Let's say I created a tempdir for a tar archive and untarred it. And it created a dir in /temp, therefore the tree would be /temp/package. Let's say I want to move /package to /usr/local. Also, package has subdirs that I want to have moved as well. What would be the syntax to move package to /usr/local and all subdirs? 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck@valstar.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: trplayer and realplayer


> Hi Igor -
> 
> I have had that problem too. On my Slackware system the "less"
> command is installed in such a way that it automatically shows
> the files contained in a tar archive. The first file listed will
> be a directory if the  archive will be one that creates its own
> directory.
> 
> If your "less" will not do that, you can always create a
> temporary directory and untar the thing in there. If it does
> create its own directory under your temporary one, you can just
> "mv" the thing to where you want it.
> 
> HTH - Chuck
> 
> 
> 
> Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Deedra Waters
 ` Dave Hunt <
   ` Deedra Waters
     ` Dave Hunt <
       ` Deedra Waters
       ` Igor Gueths
     ` Shaun Oliver
       ` Deedra Waters
         ` Shaun Oliver
           ` Igor Gueths
             ` Gregory Nowak
               ` Shaun Oliver
                 ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Shaun Oliver
               ` Igor Gueths
                 ` Charles Hallenbeck
                   ` Igor Gueths [this message]
                     ` Gregory Nowak
                       ` Igor Gueths
                     ` Charles Hallenbeck
                       ` Gregory Nowak
                         ` cp Pete
                           ` cp Gregory Nowak
                             ` cp Pete
                           ` cp Thomas Ward
                             ` cp Pete
                   ` trplayer and realplayer Steve Holmes
                 ` Pete
     ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Thomas Ward
 ` Dave Hunt <
 ` Thomas Ward

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