trplayer and realplayer

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Chuck. How do you mv it so that the directory doesn't get omitted? As an example, I was trying to move an entire directory tree from Cd to hard disk (/usr/src). My syntax was something like this: mv /mnt/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/source /usr/src. This should work under Dos, but doesn't seem to work under Linux. Just to make sure, I added a *.* before the /usr/src. In both cases, I get a message like: mv: directory has been omitted. And it doesn't move anything. In this example, I'm not saying that I am trying to do this, although I did try it before. Basically, what would be the syntax to move a directory tree? Let's say I created a tempdir for a tar archive and untarred it. And it created a dir in /temp, therefore the tree would be /temp/package. Let's say I want to move /package to /usr/local. Also, package has subdirs that I want to have moved as well. What would be the syntax to move package to /usr/local and all subdirs? 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck at valstar.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: trplayer and realplayer


> Hi Igor -
> 
> I have had that problem too. On my Slackware system the "less"
> command is installed in such a way that it automatically shows
> the files contained in a tar archive. The first file listed will
> be a directory if the  archive will be one that creates its own
> directory.
> 
> If your "less" will not do that, you can always create a
> temporary directory and untar the thing in there. If it does
> create its own directory under your temporary one, you can just
> "mv" the thing to where you want it.
> 
> HTH - Chuck
> 
> 
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