Ugly file name

John Gregor johng at ecrcvax.UUCP
Sat May 20 05:35:23 AEST 1989


In article <105096 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jackh at sun.UUCP (John Hevelin) writes:
>3. If I want to save the contents of the file before
>   removing it, I do something like:
>
>   find . -inum 12345 -exec cat {} \; > goodfile

Am I missing something?  Wouldn't

	find . -inum 12345 -exec mv {} goodfile \;

be a bit more efficient?

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