trplayer and realplayer

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Igor -

That would have worked fine if your source was not on a CD. The
thing is, the MV command wants to erase the source after putting
it somewhere else, and your CD is not erasable. You might want to
use "cp" instead with a flag to make it recursive. Probably the
flag would be -r but I would check first.

Chuck

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> 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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