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Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM:
>> My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command.  I
>> haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils
>> 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a new switch.  Is there somewhere online
>> where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating
>> cygwin right away?  I usually find that an update is followed by a
>> period of anomalous behaviour.
> 
> There's no such thing as 'mv -r'.  There is 'cp -r' to make cp recursive,
> but mv is already recursive without having to request it.

I was responding to a response that specified -r to the mv command, so I wanted
to check if it was a new switch for some new purpose (not necessarily
recursion).  Apparently not?


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