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Re: Um... How do you rename a file?

Subject: Re: Um... How do you rename a file?
From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:20:37 +0000

On 25 Mar 2004, at 11:50, Stephane Sudre wrote:

> mv is not moving a file. It's creating a hard link and then remove the
> link at the previous location.
>
> mv = link + unlink

That's only really true if you're on a single filesystem that supports
hard links; mv works across filesystems and on filesystems with no hard
links.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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