[UFO Chicago] very newbie 'nix question

[Nick Moffitt]

begin  John Kilbourne  quotation:
> Now that I've met you guys and feel comfortable, I can reveal the 
> depths of my true ignorance. I want to move a directory full of files 
> from one place to another. My reading of man mv tells me it only 
> operates on files. How do I move a directory; the files don't have a 
> suffix or other common element in the name.

	Oh, that's easy!  On Unix/GNU/BSD/Linux/any POSIX system,
directories *are* files!

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