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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Moving directories
Summary: moving dirs with unix
Message-ID: <487@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 15:41:23 GMT
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> >>In article <614@ivucsb.UUCP> ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell) writes:
> >>>
> 
>    [example of moving directory on Amiga deleted]
> 
> >>>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.

Try this little shell script I wrote on SYS V:

# mvdir
echo "moving $1 to $2"
find $1 -print | cpio -pd $2
# remove the comment on the next line if you want to delete the orig dir.
# rm -r $1
# end

It will move an entire directory including sub-dirs to the destination
directory. Invoke like: mvdir flibit /usr/test
will move the dir flibit to /usr/test/flibit

Not so hard is it?

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