From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:25:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011008082539.W28720@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011008050535.4DEB9199B5@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:05:30AM -0400
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:05:30AM -0400, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
>
> How often do you do a move of a whole tree, not just a rename?
> I can't remember the last time I did other than a rename or a copy
> of a few files. But I'm probably not the average user and I don't
> ever use a local disc.
Because I'm steeped in SysV (which is where I cut my Unix teeth), I
wouldn't find it hard to use "find . -print | cpio -pvdm dest" as
taught in one of the man pages in my early days. So, to answer your
question truthfully: "Never".
++L
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Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-08 5:05 jmk
2001-10-08 5:45 ` Mike Haertel
2001-10-08 6:27 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 8:38 ` Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp) Mike Haertel
2001-10-08 9:08 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 6:25 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2001-10-08 9:50 ` [9fans] mv vs cp Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-08 9:51 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-08 15:37 ` Richard
2001-10-08 16:02 ` William Josephson
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2001-10-11 3:19 anothy
2001-10-11 3:00 okamoto
2001-10-11 2:18 Russ Cox
2001-10-11 1:06 okamoto
2001-10-10 13:18 forsyth
2001-10-10 1:45 okamoto
2001-10-09 17:16 presotto
2001-10-09 16:59 rog
2001-10-09 16:39 forsyth
2001-10-10 8:49 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 12:25 rob pike
2001-10-09 16:18 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 12:05 forsyth
2001-10-09 1:46 okamoto
2001-10-09 5:46 ` Richard
2001-10-08 16:54 presotto
2001-10-08 16:11 anothy
2001-10-08 14:46 rob pike
2001-10-08 15:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 15:14 ` Markus Friedl
2001-10-08 16:22 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 13:03 rob pike
2001-10-08 14:40 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 13:00 rob pike
2001-10-09 9:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-09 11:43 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-10 8:57 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-10 11:50 ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-10 11:53 ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-08 6:54 nigel
2001-10-07 21:20 nigel
2001-10-07 19:11 presotto
2001-10-08 7:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-07 18:53 presotto
2001-10-07 16:23 jmk
2001-10-08 4:28 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 4:49 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 6:10 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08 6:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 6:49 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08 7:00 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 7:13 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08 7:44 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 7:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 6:54 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 7:10 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08 8:28 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 9:51 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-08 10:30 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-09 9:03 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 9:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-09 15:58 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 16:43 ` davel
2001-10-10 8:49 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-10-10 8:49 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-10 9:48 ` davel
2001-10-11 9:10 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-11 10:54 ` davel
2001-10-12 9:19 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 16:46 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 8:50 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-10 10:29 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 1:05 ` erik quanstrom
2001-10-10 2:15 ` david presotto
2001-10-10 4:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-10 8:30 ` davel
2001-10-08 10:34 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-08 9:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-08 11:13 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 9:42 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-07 12:43 presotto
2001-10-07 13:01 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-07 17:26 ` philw
2001-10-07 7:02 forsyth
2001-10-07 6:35 Russ Cox
2001-10-08 9:41 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-07 6:29 Lucio De Re
2001-10-07 6:42 ` Quinn Dunkan
2001-10-07 9:17 ` Lucio De Re
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