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Name: Jean-Francois Perrea
Date: June 19, 2003 at 08:39:56 Pacific
OS: DOS 7
CPU/Ram: Variable
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Hi,
I'm looking for a fully working mv command for dos

I found one at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ but it's win32 only

want I need is a move command that works recursively

for example

dir
c:\DIR1\
c:\DIR2\
c:\DIR3\
c:\DIR4\
c:\windows
c:\file1.txt
c:\file2.txt
c:\file3.txt
c:\file5

md c:\junk
mv * junk (or *.* instead of *)

dir
c:\junk\

the unix way is instantaneous
that would help me a lot in my project

thanks !



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Response Number 1
Name: bitbyte
Date: June 19, 2003 at 11:11:17 Pacific
Reply:

cant you use "move.exe" from dos?


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Response Number 2
Name: Jean-Francois Perrea
Date: June 19, 2003 at 11:58:38 Pacific
Reply:

move.exe can't move directories


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Response Number 3
Name: bitbyte
Date: June 19, 2003 at 12:31:27 Pacific
Reply:


currently i tried move.exe from dos 6.0 and it moves directories too


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Response Number 4
Name: Jean-Francois Perrea
Date: June 19, 2003 at 16:20:13 Pacific
Reply:

try this

md c:\testdir
md c:\junk

move c:\testdir c:\junk
or move c:\testdir c:\junk\testdir

won't work
if your version does work for this try
copy some files into c:\testdir
then try again
if that work send me your move.exe , but it won't work

it should give you something like can't read from source for every directory you try to move

the only directory moving that move.exe can do it

move c:\testdir c:\testdir1

but that's just a rename


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Response Number 5
Name: Wengier
Date: June 19, 2003 at 17:57:36 Pacific
Reply:

If you try to move directories in a Win9x DOS box, then it will work!

e.g: MOVE \DOS \WINDOWS


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