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=== Move a directory up one level ===
Sometimes you can end up with a directory which is nested inside it's intended destination. For example, <code>drush archive-restore (arr)</code> can leave you with <tt>/var/www/drush/drush</tt> and you want the contents of the sub-directory to be at the location of it's parent. Using the BASH shell options for glob control, you can set dotglob and later unset it to be able to move * up. This worked for me on one host, and didn't work on another. For the one that didn't work, mv kept complaining that destination directories were not empty. I don't care if the destination directories exist.... that's the whole point. Uggh!
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cd /var/www/drupal/drupal/
shopt -s dotglob
mv -- * ..
shopt -u dotglob
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