On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:47:48PM -0700, logical american wrote:
> > either
> > $ mkdir -p /another/path/on/another/partition/&& mv
> > /one/long/path/on/a/partition/file /another/path/on/another/partition/
> > or
> > $ mkdir -p /another/path/on/another/partition/
> > $ mv /one/long/path/on/a/partition/file !!$
> >
> In all cases we keep ending up with at least 2 commands (I don't count
> conjoined & commands as one command)
>
> So there really isn't one single command, is there?
>
> This is what I was afraid of.
>
> I am looking at the source code of cp now.
You are wanting to do two things:
make a new directory
copy something into it
Why should there be a single command for it?
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