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From: rns@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Changing DIRs to Files...
Message-ID: <3890@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 90 00:37:08 GMT
References: <2284@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1990Sep19.015106.22922@virtech.uucp>
Organization: NCR Corporation, Systems Engineering - San Diego
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In <1990Sep19.015106.22922@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:

>In article <2284@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> jnorman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Sci-Fi) writes:
>>How can one change the file type attibute ???

>How about cp (like in cp dir file) followed by rm -rf dir; mv file dir

The version of `cp' that runs on our system does not allow this (it complains
that `dir' is a directory).  Instead,
           cat dir >file
should work.

-- Rick Schubert (rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM)