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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:38:30 +0300
From: "Stanislav Petrovsky" <stasptr AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: mv & hardlinks to the same .exe file problem
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Hello.

looks like mv cannot move second hardlink to the same .exe file in
single command:

> mv --version
mv (GNU coreutils) 6.10

>mkdir testdir1
>echo test > file1.exe
>ln file1.exe file2.exe
>mv file1 file2 testdir1
mv: cannot remove `file2': No such file or directory

The same mv command with full file names works correctly
>mv file1.exe file2.exe testdir1

as .exe adding is a cygwin feature - issue posted here.

I found similar, but very old issue in web:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-fileutils AT gnu DOT org/msg00221.html
( the same issue, but w/o .exe )

--Stas

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