Mass file move

[MarmaladeMan]

I'm considering moving a large section of my site to a user-based subdomain (home/username/public_html/). I've never moved so many files remotely before, and naturally I'm trying to avoid downloading/re-uploading. Is there a faster way to do this (through shell?)? Any advice is a big help, thanks.

[dkozinn]

If you've got shell access, it's pretty trivial. Use the "mv" command, like this:

mv /source/destination/* /home/username/public_html

For more details (though there's not much more to know), you can use the "man mv" command at your shell prompt.

[MarmaladeMan]

Thanks dk. I figured it probably wasn't complicated but just wanted to check first. :)

[MarmaladeMan]

Is it possible to change the owner of the files? I've copied the files over but they're still under the old owner's, err, ownership.

[Matt]

PM me the domain, file location, old username and new username.