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On 31 Aug 92 14:59:07, bug-gnu-utils-request@prep.ai.mit.edu wrote:
: In article <9208282057.AA12744@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
: 
: > In GNU, nodes can be both directories and ordinary files.
: ...
: > Suppose "foo" is such a node.  In that case "mv bar foo" should
: > delete the existing foo (and the virtual hierarchy underneath it),
: > replacing it with bar.  "mv bar foo/" should move bar into the
: > directory foo, giving it the name foo/bar, and leaving the rest of
: > the virtual hierarchy under foo untouched.
: 
: This sounds really bad to me.  If foo is going to act like a
: directory, it should act like a directory, and one of the qualities of
: acting like a directory is that "mv bar foo" renames "bar" to
: "foo/bar".  If you do things any other way, then all sorts of typing
: idioms that people have are no longer going to work, shell scripts and
: programs are going to break, and so forth.

I suggest that mib write a distinct command called something other
than 'mv' that does what he wants it to do.  -David-

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