> > Now I have another question. I installed Thunderbird in my home > > directory but was wanting to move the entire directory into my > > /usr/local/bin directory. How might I do that? I tried mv but it > > doesn't seem to work on directories. only files. > > mv will move directories, but only within the same filesystem. > > As a quick and dirty hack use cp. > As a little less dirty but more mind-twisting hack use tar. > > tar is more correct, but you'll need to read the man page, and it's > complicated. cp may make a mess of linked files and sparse files. > The copy should work, but it may be bigger than it needs to be.
Not sure of the level of dirtiness, but what about using one of the filmanagers to move it? How well do those do on links, etc? -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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