301 Redirect for entire folder?

[spenland]

Hi All,

I'm changing the entire structure of my website to a database driven site. There are hundreds of pages that show up in search engines that I would like to do 301 redirects for. I know how to do them for individual files in the .htaccess file, but I was wondering if anyone knew a trick to get the entire contents of a folder to redirect. For example, here is a normal 301 redirect:

redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm

I would like to do this

redirect 301 /old/ http://www.you.com/new.htm

I know that code is wrong, but is there a way to do it?

Thanks!!