Re: bug with 'test'

[The Wanderer]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> The Wanderer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hmm. Speaking of echo and its requirements, is there any way to
> > have it print '-n', '-e' or '-E' in an instance where they are not
> > preceded on the line by anything which is not a recognized option?
>
> That's how coreutils echo already behaves, in the latest version.

It doesn't do it for me, with 5.93 - presumably you mean that things
have changed in the CVS version, which I haven't installed.

> > is there any reason why 'mv' does not have a --preserve option,
> > comparable to that of 'cp'?
>
> Sorry, I'm a bit lost.  What would mv --preserve do differently than
> mv already does?

...oh, *bah*.

A few times in the past, I have moved the entire contents of one
(extensive) directory - on occasion a full hard drive - to another
location; I have since then noticed that all of the files which I had
moved had identical modification times, and inferred that they had been
updated by mv. (I believe I recall testing this specifically at one
point.) I've just re-tested, with 5.93 and a single random file I don't
care about, and that behaviour no longer appears to apply.

Sorry for the clutter...

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