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From: Harald Kierer <Harald DOT Kierer AT astrum DOT de>
To: "'linda w (cyg)'" <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: strange mv behavior: mv <mydir> <mydir>
Date: 	Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:47:10 +0100
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Reproduced this:

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[/t] $ mv lib lib
mv: cannot copy a directory, `lib', into itself, `lib/lib'

[/t] [1] $ mv lib Lib
mv: cannot copy a directory, `lib', into itself, `Lib/lib'

[/t] [1] $ mv --version
mv (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[/t] $ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 RE0263 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686 unknown unknown
Cygwin

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Actually it DOES copy the directory into itself!
I get a directory 'lib' inside my old 'lib' with the exact
same contents.
Supposed behaviour should be to do nothing..?

[snip]

> 	On lnx, I get:
> mv: cannot move `mydir' to a subdirectory of itself, `mydir/mydir'
> 
> Shouldn't I get a similar error on Windows?

I get those above.

[snap]

bye,
 harry

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