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From: yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu (matt robinson)
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Subject: Re: mv'ing files from a C program
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Date: 19 Nov 90 07:37:12 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?
->

You might want to try out using rename(1).  Note that I believe this only
works if you are within the same partition, and it may not follow all
symbolic links.  There's a barrage of error returns from a rename(), so
take a look at what is in the manual.  (Sun has a massive list of return
codes from this call.)

Hope this helps.

--Matt

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