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moving files & directories

I've tried to the man file and can't make head nor tail of it.

Could someone please take a look at this and tell me why i can't move the contents of a directory into its parent?

Like i tried to here:

Code:

bash-4.2# pwd

/home/tex/slackware/packages/source

bash-4.2# dir

Xfburn                          libdvd                    libisofs

Xfce-Theme-Manager          libisoburn                    libisofs-1.2.4.tar.gz

Xfce-Theme-Manager.tar.gz  libisoburn-1.2.4.tar.gz  xfburn-0.4.3.tar.bz2

bash-4.2# cd Xfburn 

bash-4.2# dir

xfburn        xfburn.tar.gz  xfburn.tar.gz.asc

bash-4.2# mv Xfce-Theme-Manager/* source

mv: cannot stat 'Xfce-Theme-Manager/*': No such file or directory

bash-4.2#

Thanks,
Tex

You are in the directory Xfburn. There is no directory name Xfce-Theme-Manager inside Xfburn. Xfce-Theme-Manager is a directory parallel to Xfburn

If you have executed this command

Code:

bash-4.2# cd Xfburn

Now later why don't you try this.

Code:

bash-4.2# mv ../Xfce-Theme-Manager/* destination/directory

Quote:

Originally Posted by pavi_kanetkar (Post 4954727)

You are in the directory Xfburn. There is no directory name Xfce-Theme-Manager inside Xfburn. Xfce-Theme-Manager is a directory parallel to Xfburn

If you have executed this command

Code:

bash-4.2# cd Xfburn

Now later why don't you try this.

Code:

bash-4.2# mv ../Xfce-Theme-Manager/* destination/directory

Thanks kindly Pavi; that works :)