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From: johng@ecrcvax.UUCP (John Gregor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Message-ID: <131@hydra.ecrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 19:35:23 GMT
References: <105096@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: johng@hydra.UUCP (John Gregor)
Organization: ECRC GmbH, Munich
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In article <105096@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jackh@sun.UUCP (John Hevelin) writes:
>3. If I want to save the contents of the file before
>   removing it, I do something like:
>
>   find . -inum 12345 -exec cat {} \; > goodfile

Am I missing something?  Wouldn't

	find . -inum 12345 -exec mv {} goodfile \;

be a bit more efficient?

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John Gregor                                       johng%ecrcvax.UUCP@pyramid.COM