moving large number of files

From: Richard Yu (ryu_at_comxpert.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:20:51 +0800

Hi,

I try to move large number of files in one folder to another folder, but it
does a copy only instead of move. Can anyone help me the move command,
thanks.
(just to use mv will get me error, argument too long)

cd /home/folder1
tar c . | (cd /home/folder2/; tar xv)

36,000 files in /home/folder1
36,000 files in /home/folder2

after execute the commands,

36,000 files in /home/folder1
72,000 files in /home/folder2

Best regards,
Richard.

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