Odd mv behaviour

Odd mv behaviour

[Eugene Ciloci]

When I run mv it seems to go about moving directories in two different ways.
Sometimes it just changes the location of the source directory in the file
system.  Other times it begins to copy the contents of the entire directory
to the target.  I am trying to move very large files and I would really like
for mv to do its thing the former way.

Any ideas on why it's doing this?  How can I make sure it will mv stuff the
fast way?

Thanks


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Re: Odd mv behaviour

[Robert Collins]

If you have files open in the directory tree being moved (this includes a
shell with the current directory in that tree or explorer viewing the tree)
cygwin will copy-and-delete as opposed to move-in-one-step.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Ciloci" <ciloci@sympatico.ca>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: Odd mv behaviour


> When I run mv it seems to go about moving directories in two different
ways.
> Sometimes it just changes the location of the source directory in the file
> system.  Other times it begins to copy the contents of the entire
directory
> to the target.  I am trying to move very large files and I would really
like
> for mv to do its thing the former way.
>
> Any ideas on why it's doing this?  How can I make sure it will mv stuff
the
> fast way?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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