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From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: arnold@skeeve.com, tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] moving directories in svr2
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 09:38:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3606ba6d-7d00-01f2-2a52-06cfb440dfbb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202112291502.1BTF2926024814@freefriends.org>

That's fascinating. I always wondered how oldtimers were so facile with 
cpio and its ilk. If they had to use if for stuff like this, it's no 
wonder they built some muscle memory on it.

Thanks,

Will

On 12/29/21 9:02 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> System V of that era didn't allow moving directories. You can copy them
> recursively with find and cpio with the option that makes hard links
> and then remove the old directory, or use a standard tar pipeline to
> copy the directory tree.
>
> BSD has always allowed moving directories; I *think* that descends
> from Research Unix but I don't remember for sure.
>
> HTH,
>
> Arnold
>
> Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm a little flummoxed in trying to move some directories around in
>> svr2. Shouldn't the following work?
>>
>>       mkdir a
>>       mkdir b
>>       mv a b
>>
>> I get the following error:
>> mv: b exists
>>
>> I tried many of the possible variants including:
>>
>>      mv a b/
>>      mv: b/ exists
>>      mv a b/a
>>      mv: directory rename only
>>      cd b
>>      mv ../a .
>>      mv: . exists
>>      mv ../a ./
>>      mv: ./ exists
>>      mv ../a ./a
>>      mv: directory rename only
>>
>>
>> If moving directories into existing directories wasn't allowed in those
>> days, 1) how were directories managed? and 2) when did moving
>> directories into directories become a thing?
>>


  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-29 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-29 14:33 Will Senn
2021-12-29 15:02 ` arnold
2021-12-29 15:38   ` Will Senn [this message]
2021-12-29 15:44     ` Richard Salz
2021-12-29 16:17       ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 16:58         ` Richard Salz
2021-12-30  5:14         ` Dan Stromberg
2021-12-30 16:22           ` Clem Cole
2021-12-30 18:02           ` John Cowan
2021-12-30 23:04             ` Richard Salz
2021-12-29 15:17 ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 15:44   ` Will Senn
2021-12-29 16:10     ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 16:33       ` Warner Losh
2021-12-29 16:01   ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-29 16:59 Bakul Shah
2021-12-29 17:04 ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 17:14 ` arnold
2021-12-29 17:38   ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 17:49     ` Brantley Coile
2021-12-29 18:27       ` ron minnich
2021-12-29 20:59         ` Rob Pike
2021-12-29 17:12 Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-29 19:13 Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-29 19:37 ` Dan Cross
2021-12-29 20:15   ` Dan Cross
2021-12-29 20:42     ` Richard Salz
2021-12-29 20:58       ` Dan Cross
2021-12-29 21:20         ` Clem Cole
2021-12-30  3:15       ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-29 19:33 Noel Chiappa
2021-12-30  3:40 ` Jay Logue via TUHS
2021-12-30  3:45 Noel Chiappa
2021-12-30  4:02 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-30 16:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-30 22:31   ` Dan Cross
2021-12-31  0:43     ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-31  1:00       ` Rob Pike
2021-12-31  1:45         ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-31  2:23           ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-31 18:56       ` Chet Ramey
2021-12-31  3:08     ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-31  3:23       ` Rob Pike
2021-12-31  5:16         ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-31  5:21           ` Dan Cross
2021-12-31  5:55           ` Rob Pike
2021-12-31 13:32             ` Michael Kjörling
2021-12-31 15:53               ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-31 16:13                 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-12-31 18:17                 ` Dan Cross
2021-12-31 18:23                   ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-31 18:37                     ` Dan Cross
2021-12-31 18:29                   ` Arthur Krewat
2022-01-01  0:09                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-03 13:35                     ` Dan Cross
2022-01-03 20:23                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-03 20:45                         ` Warner Losh
2022-01-03 21:15                         ` Dan Cross
2022-01-03 22:26                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-03 23:10                             ` Dan Cross
2022-01-04 15:45                             ` Chet Ramey
2022-01-09 19:28                             ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-03 23:21                           ` Doug McIntyre
2022-01-03 23:37                             ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-04 14:49                               ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-01-03 23:44                             ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-03 23:56                               ` Warner Losh
2022-01-04  2:28                               ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-04  2:42                                 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-03 22:57                         ` Phil Budne
2021-12-31  5:12       ` Bakul Shah

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