Changing DIRs to Files...

[Rick Schubert]

In <1990Sep19.015106.22922 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:

>In article <2284 at gmuvax2.gmu.edu> jnorman at gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Sci-Fi) writes:
>>How can one change the file type attibute ???

>How about cp (like in cp dir file) followed by rm -rf dir; mv file dir

The version of `cp' that runs on our system does not allow this (it complains
that `dir' is a directory).  Instead,
           cat dir >file
should work.

-- Rick Schubert (rns at se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM)