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From: "Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] mv on directory
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:15:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00810311315q6fa6b77fme562c60de4f94bb6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I wonder why 'mv' is not allowed to act on directories. I found
somewhere this argument:
----
What should mv do to a `tree' that resides on multiple file servers?
If you can't do something right, sometimes it's not worth doing at
all.

-rob
----

but this doesn't go well in my ears when put alongside with the
existence of recursive rm ('rm -r').

Thanks
Ruda Sykora



             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 20:15 Rudolf Sykora [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1.1225540801.26550.9fans@9fans.net>
2008-11-01 13:48 ` Josh Wood
2008-11-01 14:17   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-11-01 15:04     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-11-01 21:05       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-11-02  2:12         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-11-03  3:02           ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-11-01 16:30 Josh Wood
2008-11-01 21:25 ` Roman Shaposhnik

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