Copying large number of files from one directory to another in Linux

"How about when moving (instead of copying):

$ find {origin}/ -maxdepth 1 -name ""*"" -o -name "".*"" -exec mv '{}' {destination}/ ';'

I think that will move keeping the structure (subdirs) and hidden files or dirs, plus no extra space consumed as with rsync + rm. And if {origin} and {destination} are in the same partition it will be faster."

Assuming you want to move the files within the same filesystem, you could just rename the directory containing your lacs and be done with it.

"I like rsync for this, or:

find dir1 -type f -exec cp {} dir2 \;"

"Using tar:

(cd {origin}; tar cf - .)|(cd {destination}; tar xvf -)

Works to get things started when the origin is initially too big for rsync but the deltas are not."