Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: >> My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command. I >> haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils >> 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a new switch. Is there somewhere online >> where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating >> cygwin right away? I usually find that an update is followed by a >> period of anomalous behaviour. > > There's no such thing as 'mv -r'. There is 'cp -r' to make cp recursive, > but mv is already recursive without having to request it.
I was responding to a response that specified -r to the mv command, so I wanted to check if it was a new switch for some new purpose (not necessarily recursion). Apparently not? -- 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/