X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Gmane User Subject: Re: Home directory Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:29:39 -0400 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4701AB37.7000800@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <4701AB37.7000800@byu.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/