moving folders

[Daniel Silverstone]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:09 +0000, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>Yes, the name of the folder is Floppy Files.
>> > > $ sudo mv /home/username1/Desktop/foldername /home/username2/Desktop

Consider putting the whole path in double-quotes

sudo mv "/home/user1/Desktop/Floppy Files" "/home/user2/Desktop"
sudo chown -R user2. "/home/user2/Desktop/Floppy Files"

The space in a filename is confusing the program

D.

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