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Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 10:51:45 -0400
To: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: mv problem
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At 09:22 AM 5/2/2002, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I got a problem when running mv :
>
>i have the directory abc and want to rename
>it as Abc (or something that changes the
>capitalisation only).
>
>I get the following result :
>
>$ mv abc Abc
>mv: cannot create directory
>`Abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc
>/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc': Invalid argument


Hm, I don't see that here:

#mv abc Abc
mv: cannot move `abc' to a subdirectory of itself, `Abc/abc'

What version of Cygwin and mv are you using?  What does the directory 
structure of "abc" look like?

As you can see, you cannot rename file differing only by case.  This is a 
Windowsism.  Sorry.  Complain to Bill if you don't like it! ;-)  You'll
need to do this as a two step process (i.e. move 'abc' to a different name
temporarily and then move it to 'Abc').  I can't say why you got the result
you did however.



Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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