[PLUG] what simple linux command does this?
logical american
website.reader3 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 23:38:42 UTC 2010
This is a "noobie" linux question.
I cannot seem to find a simple linux command to do the following:
mv /one/long/path/on/a/partition/file
/another/path/on/another/partition/file
i.e. simply move a file around across directories and partitions. The
names and paths are not necessarily the same.
I have been reading the internet and read scores of comments like "use
rsync" (nope, not preserving paths) "use cp -R/r" (nope, not copying
recursively, just one file). Both mv and cp refuse to create new
directories or directory paths (unless recursive and we're not doing a
recursive copy)
So far all that I have been able to do is
mkdir /another
cd another
mkdir path
cd path
mkdir on
cd on
mkdir another
cd another
mkdir partition
cd partition
cp /one/long/path/on/a/partition/file .
I think you get the idea.
Isn't there an easy way to do this?
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