Using Rsync to move directories

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The rsync command is the best tool for merging directory contents, as it is designed to synchronize files and directories recursively and efficiently, merging contents rather than attempting a direct overwrite of the directory itself.

-a: Archive mode, which preserves permissions, ownership, timestamps, and recursively copies directories.
-v: Verbose output (optional, but helpful to see progress).

rsync -av /path/to/source_dir/ /path/to/destination_dir/
same command using copy (cp)
cp -r /path/to/source_dir/* /path/to/destination_dir/



After using rsync to merge the contents, you can safely remove the original source directory using rm -rf.


rm -rf /path/to/source_dir