On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:25:47PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>how portable is "mv" across mount points, i.e. between
>$TMPDIR and the current directory? Will "mv -f" help?
>
> I do not thi
From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 Sep 2000 18:10:18 -0700
> I believe that mv -f is fully portable. I think the only portable
> options to mv are -f and -i.
I know that cp -f definitely *isn't* portable. I forget where it
misbehaved, but it was a bug report agai
Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>How portable is "mv -f" used in autoheader.sh? If it is, I believe we
>should switch to using it everywhere to avoid any unwanted
>interactivity.
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How portable is "mv -f" used in autoheader.sh? If it is, I believe we
should switch to using it everywhere to avoid any unwanted interactivity.
I believe that mv -f is fully portable. I think the only
