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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:34 am Post subject: Move contents of one folder to another

Hi, I am just wondering how I can move the contents of one directory to another? I have tried using mv but cant seem to get that to work Thanks

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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:43 am Post subject:

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Like this:

Code:

mv olddirectory/* -t /pathto/newdirectory

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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:46 am Post subject:

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