Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

[Joachim Dagerot]

I have spent 20 minutes or so googling around to find the best way to _move_ a complete directory hierarchy. But must admitt that I haven't foundmany good answers.

The best suggestion was from http://badgertronics.com/knowledge/one.adp?parent=25:

To move /tmp/blarg to /var:
% cd /tmp
% tar cvf - blarg | (cd /var; tar xf -)


I bet there must be atleast one utils like a binary named "mvdir" or similar that simply taked two directory names as argument. But I can't find any.

How do you guys move around your directory structures from prompt?

//J