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From: cliffs@gaffa.East.Sun.COM (Clifford C. Skolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mv'ing files from a C program
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Date: 15 Nov 90 20:59:33 GMT
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In article <22@mixcom.UUCP> ggvvgg@mixcom.UUCP (Dave Fenske) writes:
>Is there an easy way to do an 'mv' from a C program?
>
>I just want to be able to move a recently read file into another directory,
>and wish to avoid having to write it there.  Using the 'system' call is
>not deemed wiable for this application.
>
>DF

Do it like "mv"

int mv(oldpath, newpath)
char *oldpath, *newpath;
{
	int ret;

	if (ret = link(oldpath, newpath))
		return(ret); /* an error has occured */

	if (ret = unlink(oldpath))
		return(ret); /* gee, another error */

	return(0);
}
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