[PLUG] what simple linux command does this?

[logical american]

  On 9/29/2010 5:25 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:17:02PM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:51:24PM -0700, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
>>> logical american wrote circa 10-09-29 04:38 PM:
>>>>    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
>>>> [...]
>>>> Isn't there an easy way to do this?
>>> How about:
>>>
>>> $ mkdir -p /another/path/on/another/partition/
>>> $ mv /one/long/path/on/a/partition/file /another/path/on/another/partition/
>> I'm more of a fan of:
>> $ mkdir -p /another/path/on/another/partition/&&  mv /one/long/path/on/a/partition/file !!$
> Which, by the way, is incorrect.
>
>
> either
>      $ mkdir -p /another/path/on/another/partition/&&  mv /one/long/path/on/a/partition/file /another/path/on/another/partition/
> or
>      $ mkdir -p /another/path/on/another/partition/
>      $ mv /one/long/path/on/a/partition/file !!$
>
In all cases we keep ending up with at least 2 commands (I don't count 
conjoined & commands as one command)

So there really isn't one single command, is there?

This is what I was afraid of.

I am looking at the source code of cp now.