moving folders

Daniel Silverstone dsilvers at digital-scurf.org
Wed Feb 9 14:41:19 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:27 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
>Hi Norman
>
>This should work.
>
>$ sudo mv /home/username1/Desktop/foldername /home/username2/Desktop

This will move the folder from username1's desktop to username2's
desktop

Also, don't forget

sudo chown -R username2. /home/username2/Desktop/foldername

The dot after the username in that is important

That command will then set the owner of the folder (and everything in
it) to username2

D.

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