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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eugene Ciloci" <ciloci AT sympatico DOT ca>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <001f01c111ad$54f68120$f110e540 AT smith>
Subject: Re: Odd mv behaviour
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:31:42 +1000
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If you have files open in the directory tree being moved (this includes a
shell with the current directory in that tree or explorer viewing the tree)
cygwin will copy-and-delete as opposed to move-in-one-step.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Ciloci" <ciloci AT sympatico DOT ca>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: Odd mv behaviour


> When I run mv it seems to go about moving directories in two different
ways.
> Sometimes it just changes the location of the source directory in the file
> system.  Other times it begins to copy the contents of the entire
directory
> to the target.  I am trying to move very large files and I would really
like
> for mv to do its thing the former way.
>
> Any ideas on why it's doing this?  How can I make sure it will mv stuff
the
> fast way?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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