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From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stupidity in directory management?
Message-ID: <175@hobbes.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 16:21:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 16:21:19 1987
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Steve Alter writes the following in article <1091@ttidca.TTI.COM> ----
| > 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!
+----

I usually use something like the following:

    find jumbo -depth -print | cpio -o > /tmp/hold_this
    rm -fr jumbo
    cpio -ivduma < /tmp/hold_this

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John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher  plocher%uwspan.UUCP@uwvax.CS.WISC.EDU