How to make `mv the hard way' fail

[Shankar Unni]

Larry Hall wrote:
> At 12:34 AM 12/13/2004, Ben Wing wrote:
>>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

Indeed. I, too, have felt the need for this, and feel the same way as 
Ben. Let me see if I can take my first foray into the Cygwin patch 
submittal wilderness :-).

By the way, what do folks think of tying this to the "-i" functionality?

Currently, "-i" is defined as "prompt before overwriting" (i.e. if the 
target is *not* present, it still does things silently, else it 
prompts).  Sounds like a fine candidate for "prompt before copying" as 
well, as in "prompt before overwriting or moving-directories-by-copying"..


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