in reply to Moving files recursively to new subfolder

what's wrong with simply doing: 
cp -r dir1 dir2
rm -rf dir1
mkdir dir1

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Re^2: Moving files recursively to new subfolder
by jayu_rao (Sexton) on May 29, 2015 at 04:02 UTC
    Will not rm -rf dir1 delete the contents of dir2 because it is a subfolder within dir1?
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