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This guide is intended to get you oriented in the Arvo command prompt
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and give you a tour of some basic utilities. The command prompt comes in
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two flavors, in a web browser and in a terminal. For the most part
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they're the same, except that in a browser you can evaluate tall-form
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Hoon expressions but you can't run readline apps, such as `:chat`.
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Every Arvo command prompt is also a Hoon REPL. The command line is a
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great place to test out your hoon knowledge. In this guide we're just
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going to talk about some basic system utilities and get comfortable
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moving around in `%clay`. If you'd just like to see a list of
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command-line utilities, you can find the Arvo man pages [here]().
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This rudimentary tour should work well in both places.
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1
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Move around `%clay`
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After finishing the [setup instructions]() you should have an Arvo
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prompt that looks like this:
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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The path at the beginning of your prompt is actually a path in the
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global filesystem of Urbit, called `%clay`. Since `%clay` is universal
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across all of Urbit, each full path starts with a ship name. `%clay` is
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also versioned on a per-desk basis. Desks are the top-level directories
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in your pier.
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Moving around `%clay` is simple. There is no equivalent of `cd`.
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Instead, just type a valid path name at the prompt to move to that
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directory. Here we'll move to our starting root path in the try desk,
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`/try=` to the `main` desk:
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~talsur-todres/try=> /=main=
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=% /~talsur-todres/main/0
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~talsur-todres/main=>
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We have two shortcuts in `%clay` that are worth noting, `=` and `%`.
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`=` copies in some corresponding part of our current path. In the second
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line above you can see how the `=` in `/=main=` pull in the
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`~talsur-todres` and `0` in from our starting directory,
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`/~talsur-todres/try/0`. It's important to note that our full prompt to
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start is `/~talsur-todres/try=`, where the trailing `=` indicates the
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current revision. In the shell, revision `0` never exists — it's used as
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a pointer to the head.
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`%` is similar to `.` in unix:
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~talsur-todres/main=> %
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=% /~talsur-todres/main/0
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~talsur-todres/main=> %%
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[~.~talsur-todres ~.main ~]
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~talsur-todres/main=> %%%
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[~.~talsur-todres ~]
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~talsur-todres/main=> %%%%
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~
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When using `%` to move around in `%clay` you need to make sure to use
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leading and trailing `/` to ensure your path is interpolted correctly:
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~talsur-todres/main=> /%%%/try=
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=% /~talsur-todres/try/0
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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2
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Create some revisions
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Let's use `:into`, our simple utility for writing text to a file, to
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create a new file:
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~talsur-todres/try=> :into %/helo/txt 'helo mars'
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written
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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To confirm that our file was written, we can use `:ls`. `:ls` prints a
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list of directory contents, but requires that you specify a path. `%`
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will suffice for the current path:
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~talsur-todres/try=> :ls %
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readme helo
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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Let's quickly switch back to a unix command prompt to see a few things
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about both how files are synced between `%clay` and unix, and where your
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apps live.
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my-pier/talsur-todres/$ ls try
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helo.txt readme.md
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my-pier/talsur-todres/$ cat try/helo.txt
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helo mars
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Here you can see that our files are synced back to unix as they are
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changed in urbit, and vice-versa. As you change files in unix you'll see
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those changes appear in `%clay`.
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my-pier/talsur-todres/$ ls main/app/
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bang grep poke solid unsync
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began hi radio sync verb
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begin into reload talk ye
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cat label reset terminal
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chat ls rm test
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cp mv shell ticket
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my-pier/talsur-todres/$ cat main/app/ls/core.hook
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!:
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|_ [hid=hide ~]
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++ poke-ls-args
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|= [ost=bone you=ship arg=path ~]
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=+ lon=((hard arch) .^(%cy arg))
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:_ +>.$
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:* [ost %pass / %g %cide %$]
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[ost %give %nice ~]
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%+ turn (~(tap by sup.hid))
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|= [ost=bone *]
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:^ ost %give %rush
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:- %tang
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:_ ~
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:+ %rose [" " ~ ~]
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(turn (~(tap by r.lon) ~) |=([a=@ta b=*] leaf/(trip a)))
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==
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++ peer
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*
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`+>
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--
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Here you can see that `/main/app` is the main location where our apps
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are stored, and the contents of the `:ls` app. urbit applications are of
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course written in hoon, our naitive programming language. Don't worry
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about the contents of the file for now. Since changes in unix are synced
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back in to urbit, we can develop urbit programs by simply editing them
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in our favorite editor and saving them.
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For the time being let's switch back to urbit and update our file with
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some new content, so we can see how `%clay` stores revisions.
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~talsur-todres/try=> :into %/helo/txt 'gbye mars'
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written
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~talsur-todres/try=> :ls /=try/1
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readme helo
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~talsur-todres/try=> :cat /=try/1/helo/txt
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/~talsur-todres/try/9/helo/txt
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helo mars
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~talsur-todres/try=> :cat /=try/2/helo/txt
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/~talsur-todres/try/10/helo/txt
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gbye mars
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~talsur-todres/try=> :cat /=try=/helo/txt
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/~talsur-todres/try/~2014.11.26..01.06.33..c93a/helo/txt
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gbye mars
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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Here we use `:ls` to investigate the filesystem across versions. You can
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see that our `helo` file exists in our first revision. Using the simple
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`:cat` command we can print the contents of `/=try/helo/txt` in its two
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separate, versioned states.
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We can even move to a different version of our desk and look around:
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~talsur-todres/try=> /=try/1
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=% /~talsur-todres/try/1
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~talsur-todres/try/1> :ls %
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readme helo
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~talsur-todres/try/1>
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This is sort of like being in a detached HEAD in git.
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3
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Start a yacht
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Each Urbit destroyer can delegate around four billion yachts. Yachts are
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also urbit ships, but are pegged to their parent identity, and are set
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up to mirror their filesystem. We can generate a `[ship: ticket]` pair
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for a yacht by using the `:ticket` utility:
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~talsur-todres/try=> :ticket ~talsur-todres-talsur-todres
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres: ~figpem-fapmyl-wacsud-racwyd
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Every yacht for a particular destroyer ends in the same `ship-name`, and
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has every possible destroyer prefix. For example,
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`~tasfyn-partyv-talsur-todres` is also a valid yacht from
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`~talsur-todres`.
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Start up a new `vere` process with something like `bin/vere -c yacht`.
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Then run `:begin` and enter the `[ship: ticket]` pair you just generated
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when prompted. When the process is complete you should get a
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`; ~talsur-todres-talsur-todres :y1: is your neighbor` message on your
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destroyer. To confirm that everything is working properly, you can use
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`:hi` to send a message:
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~talsur-todres/try=> :hi ~talsur-todres-talsur-todres "whats up"
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hi ~talsur-todres-talsur-todres successful
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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Which will appear on your new yacht:
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< ~talsur-todres: whats up
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=>
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You should also see the contents of your `/try` desk mirrored on your
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yacht:
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=> :ls %
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readme helo
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=>
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Making another change on your destroyer should automatically propagate
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down to your yacht:
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~talsur-todres/try=> :into %/helo/txt 'back to mars'
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written
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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[%merge-fine ~talsur-todres %try]
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=> :cat %/helo/txt
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back to mars
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=>
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Move files around
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Another familiar command line utility is `:mv`:
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~talsur-todres/try=> :mv %/helo/txt %/test/helo/txt
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moved
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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[%merge-fine ~talsur-todres %try]
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=> :cat %/test/helo/txt
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back to mars
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=>
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In `%clay` we don't use file extensions or folders. A path either does
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or does not have anything in it. There's no need to do the equivalent of
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`mkdir` before moving something.
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We also implement the familiar `:rm`:
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~talsur-todres/try=> :rm %/test/helo/txt
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removed
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~talsur-todres/try=> :cat %/test/helo/txt
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file /~talsur-todres/try/~2014.11.26..16.49.52..3f5e/test/helo/txt not available
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~talsur-todres/try=>
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[%merge-fine ~talsur-todres %try]
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=> :cat %/test/helo/txt
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file /~tasfyn-partyv-talsur-todres/try/~2014.11.26..16.50.15..556b/test/helo/txt not available
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~talsur-todres-talsur-todres/try=>
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