[Linux-disciples] Overwriting dirs in mv

[Stephen R Laniel]

Suppose I'm copying a directory tree A over a directory tree
B, and both trees have identical files in them. If I do

mv -f A B

I'll get an error that mv can't overwrite B's
subdirectories. Whereas if I do

cp -r A B

everything works fine. So then I'd have to do

rm -R A

to achieve the same effect as the 'mv' command.

Is there some way to do all of this with mv?

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