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From: sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stupidity in directory management?
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Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 12:42:54 EDT
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Following is a quick list of some of the recently posted methods for
shrinking a large and mostly empty directory:

> find jumbo -depth -print | cpio -pdlm teensy
> mv jumbo/* teensy ; mv jumbo/.??* teensy
> ls -f -1 jumbo | sed -e '1,2d' | sed -e 's;.*;mv jumbo/& teensy;' | sh

(Note that each of the above three must be followed by this:)
> rm -r jumbo ; mv teensy jumbo

Now the problem with all of these is that the new directory has no
guarantee that its mode/ownerships will match the old one!

What is needed is a general "cpmod" program which would copy modes
and/or ownerships and/or times from one file (or directory) to
another.  If this already exists, could someone let me know which
newsgroup it was in?  (I think I'll cross-post to comp.sources.wanted)

-- Steve Alter
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