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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:47:12 -0500
To: "Ben Wing" <ben AT 666 DOT com>, "'Raye Raskin'" <rayer AT pobox DOT com>,
   <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: How to make `mv the hard way' fail
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At 12:34 AM 12/13/2004, you wrote:
>> If you have enough disk space you could do "cp -pr FROM TO" 
>> followed by "rm -rf FROM" if there are no errors reported by 
>> the cp command.
>> 
>> You could do a "diff -qr FROM TO" before the rm to feel even safer.
>> 
>> You could even write a little shell script that does the 
>> above, name it mv, and put it in /usr/local/bin or some other 
>> place that comes before mv.exe in your path.
>> 
>> If you really wanted to, that is.
>
>:)
>
>Maybe someone could add an option to `mv' to make it fail rather than
>copy/rm? E.g. --no-copy.


I expect this is a <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC> situation, especially
given that the current behavior was added using the same process.
So, feel free to offer a patch if you're so inclined.



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