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: <3BA166ED.7695BD6E@acedsl.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:09:49 -0400 From: "Matthew O. Persico" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: mv implemented as cp?!?!?!!? - problem!! References: <3BA00AD7.D06F7377@acedsl.com> <4.3.1.2.20010913123136.02f5aed8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > You're best bet for finding a solution to this problem is to debug Perl. > This will give you the details you need to know how to proceed with a > proper solution. Certainly it is Perl that is controlling the behavior > in this case. No, not at all. From the orginal post: > 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? Who said anything about perl? I'm talking bash command line, as in: matthew@HOME-NT-01 ~ [3]$ type cd cd is a shell builtin matthew@HOME-NT-01 /usr [4]$ cd /usr matthew@HOME-NT-01 /usr [5]$ type mv mv is aliased to `mv -i ' matthew@HOME-NT-01 /usr [6]$ mv X11R6 X11R6.XFree.4.1.0 -- Matthew O. Persico http://www.acecape.com/dsl AceDSL:The best ADSL in Verizon area -- 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/