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From: jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a "move directory" utility
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Date: 8 Oct 90 13:09:53 GMT
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In article <1990Oct6.180133.2037@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
> 
> 	Well, I think that the 'mv' command in the MKS Toolkit does what you
> want.  However, it is not free, but commercial software.  But, perhaps other
> versions of 'mv' from PD sources will also work.

No, the MKS mv will not move a directory to another path. You can rename the
directory but you cannot perform true directory moves such as the following:

mv /usr/home /

I wish you could do this sort of thing from MKS however. I certainly would
be interested if someone comes up with a utility to do it. With MKS I usually
perform the following inefficient steps:

cp -r /usr/home /
rm -rf /usr/home

Of course it's painfully slow. I want a move that moves only the directory
entries. Of course, I've seen utilities that performed a recursive copy, then
a recursive delete such as the previous example.

-Jaz


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