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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:23:32 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z
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In-Reply-To: <004f01c0ae90$ae3e0e40$1419a8c0@mercury>; from mike@erdelynet.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:16:26PM -0500

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:16:26PM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote:
>I'm having a similar issue with the mv command.

This is completely unrelated.

cgf

>Take this directory on Win2000 Server, CYGWIN=tty ntsec, NTFS
>[mike AT mercury]~/tmp:{143}:$ ls -l
>total 0
>-rw-r--r--   1 mike     none            0 Mar 16 22:12 AbcDE.txt
>-rw-r--r--   1 mike     none            0 Mar 16 22:12 CdEfg.txt
>-rw-r--r--   1 mike     none            0 Mar 16 22:12 MIKE.txt
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 mike     none           93 Mar 16 22:14 test.sh*
>[mike AT mercury]~/tmp:{144}:$ cat test.sh
>#!/bin/sh
>for file in *.txt; do
>  TMP=`echo $file | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
>  mv $file $TMP
>done
>[mike AT mercury]~/tmp:{145}:$ ./test.sh
>mv: `AbcDE.txt' and `abcde.txt' are the same file
>mv: `CdEfg.txt' and `cdefg.txt' are the same file
>mv: `MIKE.txt' and `mike.txt' are the same file
>
>I know I've used a script almost like this before to take uppercase file
>names and make them all lower case.
>
>-ME
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:08 PM
>Subject: Re: Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z
>
>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:05:44PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
>> >> >One thing I've noticed that changed with our recent upgrade
>> >> >to 1.1.8 was that moving a directory now seems to perform a copy
>> >> >and remove rather than just renaming a directory.  Is there a way
>> >> >to just force the rename?  what's the benefit of the copy over the
>> >> >rename?
>> >>
>> >> I just tried this.  An "mv" in cygwin moves the directory without
>> >> copying.
>> >>
>> >> If it isn't doing this for you we'll need details.
>> >
>> >I can send an strace if you like, but I'll need to send it directly to
>> >you, as it get's pretty long...  is there something else I could do to
>> >get you the information you require...?
>>
>> Before you send an strace, please send some obvious details like type of
>> disk (FAT, NTFS), contents of directory, cygcheck output, etc.  A very
>> simple test case is always preferable.
>>
>> cgf
>>
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