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Can one move a relpath in one command?

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – This question is similar to one I asked recently, but the answers to that question, for the most part, do not extend to this one, AFAICT. The main difference between the two questions is that the earlier one was about copying while this one is about moving. Also, that earlier question was unnecessarily specific by referring to the relative path to a file. In this question I've removed this overspecificity. I find myself doing this often enough that I wonder if there's a standard Unix way to do it: % mkdir -p /TARGETDIR/relative/path/to % mv ./relative/path/to/x /TARGETDIR/relative/path/to (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 03/06/2013 – Made popular on 03/06/2013

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I find myself doing this often enough that I wonder if there's a standard Unix way to do it:

% mkdir -p /TARGETDIR/relative/path/to % cp ./relative/path/to/somefile /TARGETDIR/relative/path/to

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