mv command behavior
Peter Lauri
lists at dwsasia.com
Tue Jul 10 07:16:59 UTC 2007
>
> I would suggest rsync for this task. You could use it to sync
> /tmp/dirA/dirB with /dirC/dirB, deleting files not in /tmp/dirA/dirB
> from /dirC/dirB something like this:
>
> $ rsync -av --delete /tmp/dirA/dirB/ /dirC/dirB/
>
> The trailing slashes are significant, so check out the rsync man page
> for more details.
>
[Peter Lauri - DWS Asia]
Hi,
But I just want to perform a simple move. This will perform a copy of the
files, and remove files in /dirC/dirB that should still be there.
After the copy of the file is completed, the file in the SOURCE should be
deleted. But --delete will delete files from the DESTINATION that are not in
SOURCE, so the complete opposite of what I want :)
I assume I have to write my own script for this that copies FILE BY FILE and
checks if it was copied correctly, and then delete it from the tmp dir.
/Peter
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