[Info-vax] Search for folders

[bill]

On 1/27/2024 1:02 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 27/01/2024 17:13, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 1/27/2024 8:52 AM, bill wrote:
>>> On 1/27/2024 12:32 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> On 1/26/2024 3:32 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>>>> Unix has some great tools for searching for folders and files. Are
>>>>> there similar ones in VMS like `grep` or `find`?
>>>>>
>>>>> THe folder structure in OpenVMS is wierd... what's the root folder
>>>>> equivalent is it [000000] or is it cleverer than that?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, the Unix directory structure is weird, the VMS directory 
>>>> structure is
>>>> reasonable.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What is weird about the Unix directory structure?  It is a simple tree.
>>>
>>> In what way is it different from the VMS structure other than not having
>>> lots of "roots"?
>>>
>>> bill
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Because I'm familiar with the VMS structure ???
>>
> The most weird setup I ever used was OS/400 - later i5
> 
> It had many different file systems - an IBM one with  libraries and disk 
> pools, with db2 as the filesystem, a root (Unix like) filesystem and a 
> few more I never used.
> 
> What really upset me was some early *nixs that hid the drive devices,

Device names were never hidden. Just type the right command to see what
they are.  df would do it.

As for "mv".  Probably a bad naming choice as it didn't really "move"
a file.  It renamed it.  So, for obvious reasons, trying to rename a
file to be on another disk would be silly.  But if you really needed
command to do it, it was trivial to write a script to move the file
and delete the original in any of the shells and make it a command.

bill


> but wouldn't let you rename (mv) files from one device to another. 
> Useful unless you knew what was on which drive!
>