To move /home/ben/memos dir in /home/bob/memos, what is the
result by mv /home/ben/memos /home/bob

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To move /home/ben/memos dir in /home/bob/memos, what is the result by mv /home/ben/memos /home/bob..

Answer / senthil

#mv /home/ben/memos /home/bob/memos

The files contain memos is directly moved to the bob user
sub directory memos. Nothing changes will happen in /home/bob.

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To move /home/ben/memos dir in /home/bob/memos, what is the result by mv /home/ben/memos /home/bob..

Answer / prashant

#mv /home/ben/memos /home/bob/memos

It move all the contain of /home/ben/memos
to /home/bob/memos without any changes.

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To move /home/ben/memos dir in /home/bob/memos, what is the result by mv /home/ben/memos /home/bob..

Answer / ali

this overwrite memos DIR in /home/bob/memos .....

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To move /home/ben/memos dir in /home/bob/memos, what is the result by mv /home/ben/memos /home/bob..

Answer / praveen0425

the directory name ~./memos at /home/ben/memos/ is moved to
the location /home/bob/memos/

not only files but entire dir is moved

so to view the files of /home/ben/memos/ we need to jump to
/home/bob/memos/memos/ location

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