On Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 17:56, Bob Proulx wrote:
[..] 
> GNU mv will conform strictly to standard behavior if POSIXLY_CORRECT
> is set.
> 
>   touch a
>   mv a -- b
>   touch a
>   POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 mv a -- b
>   mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
>   Try `mv --help' for more information.

Ah, so there we have it. Well, since "--" is unusable with POSIXLY_CORRECT
enabled (right?), imv will have to either get rid of "--" or test for
POSIXLY_CORRECT itself?

Regards,

Oskar Liljeblad ([EMAIL PROTECTED])


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