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From: brant@uf.msc.umn.edu (Gary Brant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Moving directories
Message-ID: <11651@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 18 Mar 89 21:08:41 GMT
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In article <614@ivucsb.UUCP> ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell) writes:
>
>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? :-)

Sys V requires you be Super User to mv directories.  Dunno why, it's
a pain.


>-- Dan Howell  <ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com>
>--             <...!(pyramid|ucbvax)!ucsbcsl!nessus!ivucsb!dan>


-Gary Brant