From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2009-06-26 18:06:30
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Quoting leledumbo <lel...@ya...>: > > If I have 2 dir (let's say A and B) that have common subdir (call it C), when > I run: > > mv -f A/C . && mv -f B/C . > > it should end up merging everything under C from both A and B into single C > dir, right? But I got "cannot move ... permission denied" instead. > You've said to move a directory A/C and a directory B/C to the current working directory. I don't think that is want you meant to do. The ``permission denied'' will be exhibited if any files are open in A/C or B/C. If you want to move the files in A/C and B/C to a common directory you need to do the following: mv -f A/C/* B/C/* D/C/ But if any files are open in A/C or B/C you will see ``permission denied''. And if there are like names in A/C and B/C the files in B/C will persist. -- Earnie |