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>perl has direct access to most system calls.  Thus mv becomes a 2 line
>perl script.

You mean, like /bin/mv is a 20 line C program (I'll allow a generous
factor of 10 for perl's superiority over C) :-).

(/bin/mv has to be very complicated to handle things like recursive
moves across file systems, preserving all attributes.)

Bruce