gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Now, I want to merge it all.  I am afraid that if I go to the
> /home/greg/files/files/author1/booktwo directory and simply MOVE it with
> Overwrite to the /home/greg/files/ directory, I will delete
> /home/greg/files/author1/bookone.

  If everything else fails, you can try a trick like this:

(cd source;tar cf - .)|(cd target; tar xvf -)

  Or you could try something like this:

cd /home/greg/files/files/
find -type d | while read name; do mkdir "/home/greg/files/$name"; done

(which will recreate the directory structure)

find -type f | while read name; do echo mv "$name" "/home/greg/files/$name"; done

(which will move the files)

  Disclaimer: This is completely untested. Use at your own risk.

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                                                          - Warp

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