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How to move a directory, file by file? (instead of “copy then remove”)

My computer has one 500GB drive. I want to move 400GB of data from /unencrypted to /encrypted. Both directories are on the same partition, but /encrypted is handled by ecryptfs, so mv /uncrypted/* ...
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Will files created under source directory after running `cp` be copied?

Suppose I use cp to copy a directory to another place. If the process takes long, and I create a new file under the source directory, will it be copied, or it depends? Thanks!
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How to make duplicates with different names from a single file? [closed]

I want to duplicate the contents of a file. Suppose there is a file named "Hydrogen.element". I want to duplicate the contents of this file with a different name ie.make another file named ...
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How to add/replace only modified/updated files recursively for some 2 folders?

So I currently do stuff like: rm -rf ../../../$CLOUD_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib_boost mkdir ../../../$CLOUD_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib_boost cp -r ../../../$BOOST_ROOT_DIR/$BOOST_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib/* ...
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bash force copy over same file

Our sysadmin has created a backup system that creates snapshots of the hard drive. When I try to restore an older version from the snapshot: cp /path/to/snapshots/foo.bar /path/to/folder/foo.bar ...
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How to copy files nested in directories that match a pattern?

I'm looking to copy files from subdirectories that match this pattern vendor/plugin/*/tasks/*.rake into a folder lib/tasks I think that this could be done several ways, but wanted to see if a ...