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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 :).