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Re: Home directory
Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM:
>> My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command. I
>> haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils
>> 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a new switch. Is there somewhere online
>> where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating
>> cygwin right away? I usually find that an update is followed by a
>> period of anomalous behaviour.
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> There's no such thing as 'mv -r'. There is 'cp -r' to make cp recursive,
> but mv is already recursive without having to request it.
I was responding to a response that specified -r to the mv command, so I wanted
to check if it was a new switch for some new purpose (not necessarily
recursion). Apparently not?
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