[RESOLVED] Moving directories

[zzz]

This is not quite a PHP question I guess...

I have a number of directories created by a PHP script
mainDir/dirA
mainDir/dirB
mainDir/dirC

I need to move these subdir to another dir

mainDir/a/dirA
mainDir/a/dirB
mainDir/a/dirC

Granted the directories and files withing those have permissions that prohibit me movin them using FTP client. I have root access and can probably use something like putty but when I try

 cp dirA/ a/

I get the following message:

cp: omitting directory `dirA/'

Also I have literally hundreds subdirectories that need to be pushed in subdirectories according to alphabet letter dir. Lost. Any help woudl be highly appreciated.

[zzz]

mv -- getting late...

Any wildcard tips perhaps? For example, how would I match all directories starting with 'a' asn that have more then 1 char length?

[zzz]

Proud of myself: mv a* a/

[Horizon88]

You could have also used cp -R , which would copy the directory recursively.