On Dec 13, 2010, at 4:55 PM, James Stroud wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Francis E Reyes wrote: >> What gives me the willies is using mv... it's so .. permanent... and would >> drive my spotlight indexer nuts . >> >> I go for symlink :) > > Symlink fails for the renaming function, f, when f(name_i) == name_j if > renaming a set of files containing both name_i and name_j. >
Come to think of it, so will mv. James
