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bug#17372: GNU mv
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#17372: GNU mv |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:06:45 +0100 |
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On 04/29/2014 03:34 PM, Scott Brunner wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Not sure I'm in the right place - but - I'm having a problem with the "mv"
> command in Cygwin's Unix emmulator... The man page directed me to this
> address... I have a bunch of files that all start with the "-" character
> (-moo, -moo1, -moo2)... Obviously the "-" is treated as a switch in the Unix
> world - so you can't do simple moves as you would in Solaris... I'm not sure
> if the goal of your GNU release is supposed to match the functionality of
> Unix but I just wanted to point this out in case you were unaware...
>
> In Solaris - this works:
>
> mv -f - '-moo' SCO-moo
>
> In Cygwin - it does not...
two -- are need to terminate option processing in GNU land
mv -f -- '-moo' SCO-moo
See also:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#I-have-a-file-_0027_002df_0027-and-it-affects-rm_002e
thanks,
Pádraig.