Re: mv problem

2002-05-03 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Good point! I looked at this after receiving your mail and I see the same thing. So the error you and I see is incorrect. I wonder if it's related to the inode hash problem reported and patched earlier this week... Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: mv problem

2002-05-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I had to try this out to see how my system behaved. I saw something very interesting: % mkdir yad % mv yad YaD mv: cannot copy a directory, `yad', into itself, `YaD/yad' % find yad yad yad/yad % ll -id YaD 66306041 drwxr-xr-x3 RSchulz None0 May 3 09:08 YaD/ % ll -Ri ya

Re: mv problem

2002-05-03 Thread Jason Tishler
Larry, On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:51:41AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 09:05 AM 5/3/2002, Jason Tishler wrote: > >On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:51:45AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > > > As you can see, you cannot rename file differing only by case. This is a

Re: mv problem

2002-05-03 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:05 AM 5/3/2002, Jason Tishler wrote: >Larry, > >On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:51:45AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > 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

Re: mv problem

2002-05-03 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:16 AM 5/3/2002, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > > 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

Re: mv problem

2002-05-03 Thread Jason Tishler
Larry, On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:51:45AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > 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

Re: mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
> 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 i

Re: mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:22 AM 5/2/2002, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >Hi all, > >I got a problem when running mv : > >i have the directory abc and want to rename >it as Abc (or something that changes the >capitalisation only). > >I get the following result : > >$ mv abc Abc >mv: cannot create directory >`Abc/abc/abc/ab

mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi all, I got a problem when running mv : i have the directory abc and want to rename it as Abc (or something that changes the capitalisation only). I get the following result : $ mv abc Abc mv: cannot create directory `Abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/ab