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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
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Subject: [9fans] mv vs cp
Date: Sun,  7 Oct 2001 08:29:00 +0200
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Am I being utterly obtuse, or does it really make sense to duplicate
then delete files when moving them to another directory?

I had the distribution archives in /dist under "kfs" and decided to do
the following:

	% cd /dist
	% mkdir plan9
	% mv *.9gz plan9

the machine is still busy copying plan9.9gz :-(

In this case, a "rename" would have been appropriate.  Is it not
possible to determine whether it would work and resort to cp+rm if
it doesn't?

In fact, a rename command would be an adequate compromise.  I see
there's a "kfs" command called "rename" but the man page does not
specify its actual scope.  Should I have used that (one file at the
time) instead?

++L