>>>>> Mark Panen <mark.pa...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tom Furie <t...@furie.org.uk> wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>> Tom Furie <t...@furie.org.uk> writes:
>>>> What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll >>>> complain about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works. >>> The other catch is that it won't consider the filenames with a >>> leading dot, such as ‘.bashrc’. >> Well, true, but there was no mention of dot files in the original >> problem. Neither it was stated that there were no such files. […] > yes only the files put in /mnt/deer on 22/09/2011 must be moved to > there own folder, but looks like i will have to spend days doing this > manually as zebra is 378 gb big and i copied some files from zebra to > /mnt/deer using "cp" (my bad) and i don't have much room to play with > now as i only have 197gb left in /mnt/deer and a lot of duplicate > files in /mnt/deer and /mnt/deer/zebra To find the duplicates, the command like the following could have been used: $ cd /mnt/deer/ \ && find . -type f -not -wholename ./zebra/\* \ -exec cmp -- {} zebra/{} \; \ -print While to remove them (after double-checking!), the final -print can be replaced with: -exec rm -v -- {} + -- FSF associate member #7257 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8639fljbde....@gray.siamics.net