Findutils / mv

Patrik Kullman <[email protected]> 20 Feb 2003 23:03:44 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Organization	Netsafe International AB
Message-ID	<1045778624.1382.4.camel@localhost>

Hey,

I just reflected over why a directory structure can't "complete" an
already existing, equally built, directory structure.

Example:
dir1
 -> subdir1
     -> file 1,2,3,4
 -> subdir2
     -> file 1,2,3,4

dir2
 -> subdir1
     -> file 1,2,3,4
 -> subdir2
     -> file 1,2,3,4


I can't seem to merge these two.
(I solved it by: cp -Rf dir1/* dir2; rm -rf dir1)

Why is this?