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Post 302119524 by Sax on Wednesday 30th of May 2007 10:08:29 AM
05-30-2007
Ok, being new to this I have drawn a pic to help me explain......
ok hopefully this will help me explain what I'm trying to do.
I did ls | wc -l on /user and that gave 392, which sounds about right (give or take 15 random other directories and files that are in there).
So I am trying to move files from one private folder (under xxxx.old) to the other private folder, I need to do this somewhere in the region of 350 times on different folders.
Apologies for my naff explanation but hopefully my wonderful picture will give you a clue what I'm on about
ok hopefully this will help me explain what I'm trying to do.
I did ls | wc -l on /user and that gave 392, which sounds about right (give or take 15 random other directories and files that are in there).
So I am trying to move files from one private folder (under xxxx.old) to the other private folder, I need to do this somewhere in the region of 350 times on different folders.
Apologies for my naff explanation but hopefully my wonderful picture will give you a clue what I'm on about
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