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mmv installed in the sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Laas)
Fri Jan 8 10:08:33 1999
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:06:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Laas <golem@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: golem@MIT.EDU
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
After much ado about a silly little system utility, mmv has finally been
installed in the sipb locker. To use it, type:
add sipb
mmv 'from' 'to'
Mmv moves each source file matching a 'from' pattern to the target name
specified by the 'to' pattern. The command-line options -c, -a, -l,
or -s cause mmv to copy, append, hardlink, or softlink instead of the
default -x (move, across filesystems if necessary), and there are more
esoteric options described in the man page. If invoked with the name
(via a symlink, for example) mcp, mad, or mln, it will implicitly assume
the -c, -a, or -l option. Note that if 'from' contains any shell
metacharacters (it probably does, if you're using mmv), you will have
to quote it to prevent the shell from expanding it.
The man page, which is pretty encompassing, is installed in the sipb
locker:
add sipb
man mmv
Bug reports should go to bug-sipb@mit.edu.
--Chris
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