Serious bug in GNUish mv

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From: Bryan So
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 04:40

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I tried out the GNU-ish MSDOS file utilites.  Most of them
are great!  Thanks for the port.  However, the following
command line:

     mv ..\test .

where "test" does exist gives the following error:

     cannot move ..\test to ./..\test

The file does not get moved but it is removed!  Does anybody
know whom should I send the bug report?


Further, there seems to be no shareware/pd versions of mv that
conforms to UNIX semantic, in particular, will recursively move 
a directory.  The GNU port can rename a directory but will not 
move.  Is it that difficult?



Bryan

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Subject: Serious bug in GNUish mv
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