Be careful, I had made a big mistake here. 'mktemp -d' creates a
directory in /tmp, and, surely, it is another file system. So 'mv' will
just 'cp'. So ${tempdirname} should be in the some file system as <dir>
Regards,
Pablo.
El 12/06/2013 08:16 p.m., Liam Slusser escribi?:
> So combining the two approaches I think that this may be a better
> solution?
>
> tempdirname=`mktemp -d`
> mv <dir> $tempdirname
> mkdir <dir>
>
> # rm -rf <tempdirname>
> mkdir empty
> rsync -a --delete empty/ $tempdirname
> rmdir empty $tempdirname
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Pablo.
