At 12:34 AM 12/13/2004, you wrote: >> 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.
I expect this is a <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC> situation, especially given that the current behavior was added using the same process. So, feel free to offer a patch if you're so inclined. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
