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From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Moving directories
Message-ID: <614@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 19:00:19 GMT
Reply-To: ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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I just did something the other day which I had to gloat over.  I had a disk
which had one (count 'em, 1) directory on it.  I decided this was silly,
especially since that directory contained 1 other directory and 1 file.
The directory was a huge tree-structured directory.  I just said

cd dir1
rename file /
rename dir2 /
cd /
delete dir1

And voila, no more useless top level directory.  Try that on an IBM!

(and by the way, I also noticed that you can do this on BSD Unix, but not
on Sys V!  Why would AT&T do this?  Are they trying to be IBM compatible? :-)

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