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Re: mv problem
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" <lhall at rfk dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: spetreolle at yahoo dot fr
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 08:16:57 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: mv problem
> Hm, I don't see that here:
>
> #mv abc Abc
> mv: cannot move `abc' to a subdirectory of itself,
> `Abc/abc'
>
> What version of Cygwin and mv are you using? What
> does the directory
> structure of "abc" look like?
>
> As you can see, you cannot rename file differing
> only by case. This is a
> Windowsism. Sorry. Complain to Bill if you don't
> like it! ;-) You'll
> need to do this as a two step process (i.e. move
> 'abc' to a different name
> temporarily and then move it to 'Abc'). I can't say
> why you got the result
> you did however.
>
Hi,
I'm using cygwin version 1.3.10 with all updated
packages.
mv --version reports : mv (fileutils) 4.1
(cygcheck reports exactly fileutils 4.1-1)
This is reproductible with every directory.
Steps I follow :
mkdir mydir
mv mydir MyDir (or Mydir, mydiR).
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