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Re: No "No De-ferenferencing" Option


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: No "No De-ferenferencing" Option
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 16:35:25 -0600

> Not really a bug; more a lack of feature...Please could we have a -d option
> to stop move de-referencing symbolic links?

Huh?  The mv command does not dereference symbolic links.  They will
be moved like any other file.  If you would please report the version
(mv --version) of the program, the operating system (uname -a), and a
test case to be able to reproduce the problem.  Thanks.

  ln -s junk foo
  ls -l foo
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 bob      bob             3 Oct 21 16:33 foo -> junk
  mv foo bar
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 bob      bob             3 Oct 21 16:33 bar -> junk
  ls -l bar

Bob

> Matthew Bell
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> 
> p.s. For now I'll use an alias to copy and rm :).



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