On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:40:46PM -0600, Ben Wing wrote: > When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked > for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the > entire directory and then delete the original. > > I consider this very dangerous behavior to be happening without my > specifically requesting it, and I'd like to make this fail rather than doing > this. Is there any option in Cygwin to disable this? Usually it is very > easy to fix the problem, but I want to be told about it rather than having > to ^C the mv and hope I caught it before it was in the middle of deleting > the original.
The windows MOVE command appears to do what you want. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/