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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:08:42 -0800
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: How to make `mv the hard way' fail
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:40:46PM -0600, Ben Wing wrote:
> When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked
> for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the
> entire directory and then delete the original.
> 
> I consider this very dangerous behavior to be happening without my
> specifically requesting it, and I'd like to make this fail rather than doing
> this.  Is there any option in Cygwin to disable this?  Usually it is very
> easy to fix the problem, but I want to be told about it rather than having
> to ^C the mv and hope I caught it before it was in the middle of deleting
> the original.

The windows MOVE command appears to do what you want.

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