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: <002401c13be6$3d8e5720$7edd18ac@amr.corp.intel.com> From: "Tim Prince" To: "Matthew O. Persico" , "cygwin" References: <3B9FE747.8BBA7EF3@acedsl.com> Subject: Re: mv implemented as cp?!?!?!!? Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:54:18 -0700 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew O. Persico" To: "cygwin" Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:52 PM Subject: mv implemented as cp?!?!?!!? > I have a /usr/X11R6 directory that I wanted to get out of the way. So I > renamed it like this: > > cd /usr > mv X11R6 X11R6.XFree.4.1.0 > > It is taking multiple minutes. Looking at it in Windows Explorer, I see > both X11R6 and X11R6.XFree.4.1.0 in existance at the same time. > > Is mv implemented as cp and del?!?!. Why not just rename the file, a'la > UNIX, or even Windows? Or am I really missing something? You want it to fail whenever the destination file exists? I've never knowingly been anywhere Verizon operated where DSL was available; what's that got to do with cygwin? -- 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/