> If you have enough disk space you could do "cp -pr FROM TO" > followed by "rm -rf FROM" if there are no errors reported by > the cp command. > > You could do a "diff -qr FROM TO" before the rm to feel even safer. > > You could even write a little shell script that does the > above, name it mv, and put it in /usr/local/bin or some other > place that comes before mv.exe in your path. > > If you really wanted to, that is.
:) Maybe someone could add an option to `mv' to make it fail rather than copy/rm? E.g. --no-copy. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/