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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:56:59 -0500
To: David Dagon <david DOT dagon AT mindspring DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
Message-ID: <19990329005659.A2473@cygnus.com>
References: <36FD516F DOT 45299E3E AT mindspring DOT com>
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In-Reply-To: <36FD516F.45299E3E@mindspring.com>; from David Dagon on Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 04:45:20PM -0500

I'm not 100% certain (and I can't check right now) but I think that
this should not be a problem in recent snapshots.  A net contributor
supplied a patch to make "inode" generation case-insensitive.  That
should make mv capable of detecting this problem and disallowing it.

-chris

On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 04:45:20PM -0500, David Dagon wrote:
>  I had a group of files that started with capital letters.  I moved
>them to a new directory, and bash renamed them to lower case
>letters.  No matter, I thought, I'll just rename them.  That's
>when I noticed the files were being deleted by bash:
>
>bash-2.02$ ls
>abstracttree.java  node.java  binarytree.java
>splaytree.java     treetype.java
>
>bash-2.02$ mv abstracttree.java Abstracttree.java
>mv: cannot move `abstracttree.java' to `Abstracttree.java': No such file
>or directory
>
>bash-2.02$ ls
>binarytree.java  splaytree.java   treetype.java
>node.java
>
>bash-2.02$ rename node.java Node.java
>bash: rename: command not found
>
>bash-2.02$ mv node.java Node.java
>mv: cannot move `node.java' to `Node.java': No such file or directory
>
>bash-2.02$ ls
>binarytree.java  splaytree.java   treetype.java
>
>Is this a bug?  If this behavior is my failure to set some variable, it
>seems to be a very dangerous trap to new users.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David Dagon
>david DOT dagon AT mindspring DOT com
>
>
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