Hi Eric, Thanks so much for the help and all you guys do supporting the GNU projects... Have a good day - sir !
Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad > On Apr 29, 2014, at 11:10, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > > tag 17372 notabug > thanks > >> On 04/29/2014 08:34 AM, Scott Brunner wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Not sure I'm in the right place - but - I'm having a problem with the "mv" >> command in Cygwin's Unix emmulator... > > Yes, this is the right place; you'd see the same behavior on Linux, > which means it is not cygwin-specific (if you do encounter something > that you cannot reproduce on Linux, then the cygwin lists are a better > place for that question). > >> The man page directed me to this address... I have a bunch of files that all >> start with the "-" character (-moo, -moo1, -moo2)... Obviously the "-" is >> treated as a switch in the Unix world - so you can't do simple moves as you >> would in Solaris... I'm not sure if the goal of your GNU release is supposed >> to match the functionality of Unix but I just wanted to point this out in >> case you were unaware... >> >> In Solaris - this works: >> >> mv -f - '-moo' SCO-moo > > That behavior is not required by POSIX. But what POSIX _does_ require > is that: > > mv -f -- -moo SCO-moo > > does the right thing, and GNU mv complies with that. You can also use: > > mv -f ./-moo SCO-moo > > > You have asked a FAQ; for more details: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#I-have-a-file-called-_002d_002dhelp_002e-How-do-I-remove-it_003f > > Therefore, I'm closing this as not a bug, although you can continue to > respond to the thread if you have more questions on the topic. > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >
