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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: Looking for a "move directory" utility
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 22:41:59 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.224159.20045@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
References: <1990Oct6.113913.19507@cs.dal.ca> <1990Oct6.180133.2037@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1900@abvax.UUCP>

In article <1900@abvax.UUCP> jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes:
>gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>> Well, I think that the 'mv' command in the MKS Toolkit does what you want.  
>
>mv /usr/home /  # does not work

This is not always so.  I noticed that it is possible to do this on a
NFS mounted drive on a DOS machine when using PC-NFS.

>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.

mv -r /usr/home /

This will work the same as the above, but is still very slow.
I think the `-r' option is a recent addition.
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