On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
| > | Alternatively one can use rsync(1), but that is not part of the base.
| >
| > That may work for cp(1), but it's hard to replicate mv(1) behavior
| > with rsync (only metadata changes when on the same fs) or even
| > impossible to replciate rm(1) behavior.
|
| Technically it could be possible to replicate mv with rsync
| --remove-source-files ... :)
rsync will still copy the file first, while mv can simply move the
file to another directory without the copy operation when it's on the
same filesystem (my comment about 'only metadata changes').
Cheers,
Paul
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