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Portability of "mv -f"
From: |
Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Portability of "mv -f" |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:50:43 -0400 (EDT) |
Hello!
How portable is "mv -f" used in autoheader.sh? If it is, I believe we
should switch to using it everywhere to avoid any unwanted interactivity.
Otherwise, it should be replaced with "rm -f" and "cp".
Related question - how portable is "mv" across mount points, i.e. between
$TMPDIR and the current directory? Will "mv -f" help?
Perhaps I'm too paranoid, but I just want consistency. I often avoided "mv
-f" in my makefiles because Autoconf didn't use it. Now it does, but only
in one place.
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
- Portability of "mv -f",
Pavel Roskin <=