RE: Strange symlink and mv interaction

2004-02-20 Thread Parker, Ron
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tilde expansion is usually done by the shell. However, > judging from the > rest of your message, you meant the above to say > > mv -- --1.2 ../tla--escapes--1.2 I did. > This is the expected behavior. The symlink takes you to the

Re: Strange symlink and mv interaction

2004-02-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Parker, Ron wrote: > From inside of ~/src/myprojects I did a: > > mv -- --1.2 ~/tla--escapes--1.2 > > where "--1.2" was a directory in ~/src/myprojects. This did not move > ~/src/myprojects/--1.2 to ~/src/tla--escapes--1.2. What it did do was move > it to /cygdrive/c/t

Strange symlink and mv interaction

2004-02-19 Thread Parker, Ron
>From inside of ~/src/myprojects I did a: mv -- --1.2 ~/tla--escapes--1.2 where "--1.2" was a directory in ~/src/myprojects. This did not move ~/src/myprojects/--1.2 to ~/src/tla--escapes--1.2. What it did do was move it to /cygdrive/c/tla--escapes--1.2. Here are the pertinent paths: