Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <041101c111ae$cf903240$806410ac@local> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Eugene Ciloci" , References: <001f01c111ad$54f68120$f110e540@smith> Subject: Re: Odd mv behaviour Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:31:42 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jul 2001 06:18:14.0821 (UTC) FILETIME=[ECD05D50:01C111AC] If you have files open in the directory tree being moved (this includes a shell with the current directory in that tree or explorer viewing the tree) cygwin will copy-and-delete as opposed to move-in-one-step. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene Ciloci" To: Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 4:21 PM Subject: Odd mv behaviour > When I run mv it seems to go about moving directories in two different ways. > Sometimes it just changes the location of the source directory in the file > system. Other times it begins to copy the contents of the entire directory > to the target. I am trying to move very large files and I would really like > for mv to do its thing the former way. > > Any ideas on why it's doing this? How can I make sure it will mv stuff the > fast way? > > Thanks > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/