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

Subject: Re: Um... How do you rename a file?
From: Dustin Voss <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:45:25 -0800

On 25 Mar, 2004, at 4:29 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:

I take your point about the fact that you aren't really moving the file
so you don't expect to have to use a method called "move". But I'm
sure you can see that renaming a file is just a special case of the
move operation in which you don't change the directory that it's in ---
i.e. there's no need for a separate rename operation.

I can see where's he's coming from. Files have a unique id, so if you delete a file and recreate it with the same name, you'll have a different unique id. The only reason it works is because the mv command doesn't delete and recreate the file on HFS+.
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