On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:28:06PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:

> I RTFmvM but did not RTFrmM since I was trying to rename the files :)

Duh, one slap on the wrist for me for not reading properly... :-/ Sorry!


> You are right though, Linux does use GNU rm and the man page for rm
> does indeed speak of the -- option.  The mv man page does not :(

Odd, that. Maybe the author of the mv man page (and info page) relied on
the fact that everybody would assume that mv uses GNU getopts (which is
what provides this functionality)... Stupid assumption, though.

Ah well...

Thomas
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