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Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
- To: David Dagon <david.dagon@mindspring.com>
- Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:56:59 -0500
- Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <36FD516F.45299E3E@mindspring.com>
I'm not 100% certain (and I can't check right now) but I think that
this should not be a problem in recent snapshots. A net contributor
supplied a patch to make "inode" generation case-insensitive. That
should make mv capable of detecting this problem and disallowing it.
-chris
On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 04:45:20PM -0500, David Dagon wrote:
> I had a group of files that started with capital letters. I moved
>them to a new directory, and bash renamed them to lower case
>letters. No matter, I thought, I'll just rename them. That's
>when I noticed the files were being deleted by bash:
>
>bash-2.02$ ls
>abstracttree.java node.java binarytree.java
>splaytree.java treetype.java
>
>bash-2.02$ mv abstracttree.java Abstracttree.java
>mv: cannot move `abstracttree.java' to `Abstracttree.java': No such file
>or directory
>
>bash-2.02$ ls
>binarytree.java splaytree.java treetype.java
>node.java
>
>bash-2.02$ rename node.java Node.java
>bash: rename: command not found
>
>bash-2.02$ mv node.java Node.java
>mv: cannot move `node.java' to `Node.java': No such file or directory
>
>bash-2.02$ ls
>binarytree.java splaytree.java treetype.java
>
>Is this a bug? If this behavior is my failure to set some variable, it
>seems to be a very dangerous trap to new users.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David Dagon
>david.dagon@mindspring.com
>
>
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