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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stupidity in directory management?
Message-ID: <851@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 03:53:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  3 03:53:45 1987
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In article <1826@vax135.UUCP>, whb@vax135.UUCP (Wilson H. Bent) writes:
> In article <23047@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>> [stuff about filling up directories and then deleting files]
> The method I use to 'shrink' a directory [is]
> 	cd (parent of jumbo)
> 	find jumbo -depth -print | cpio -pdlm teensy
> 	rm -r jumbo
> 	mv teensy jumbo		# just to get the names right!
> Of course, I've yet to find a BSD find which understands "-depth"...

Great poslfit, what's wrong with

cd (parent of jumbo)
mkdir teensy
mv jumbo/* teensy
rmdir jumbo
mv teensy jumbo

which works durn near everywhere?

If you have dot files in jumbo you may have to add

mv jumbo/.??* teensy

(though that would miss files matching .?).  If want to be really safe,
you could do

ls -f -1 jumbo | sed -e '1,2d' | sed -e 's;.*;mv jumbo/& teensy;' | sh

though that strikes me as probably being overkill.

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)