From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: UUSQUISH?
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4990
Posted: Thu Dec 30 14:15:53 1982
Received: Sat Jan  1 02:18:51 1983

From:     Chris Torek 
Date:     29 Dec 82 09:57:37 EST  (Wed)
Can't this be done as a shell script?  I've used the following before:

cd /usr/spool
mkdir newuucp
chown uucp newuucp
chmod 777 newuucp
ln uucp/* newuucp	# note: uucp/* always matches at least 3(?) files
mv uucp uucpx ; mv newuucp uucp
rm -rf uucpx

This can even be done in multi-user mode, as long as those two 'mv's
get done quickly.