I solved this problem (the non-posix command) by replacing:
err = os.system("mv linux*/* linux*/.[^.]* ..; rmdir linux*")
with
err = os.system("find linux* -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -iREF mv REF
../; rmdir linux*")
--
David Härdeman
