Re: Um... How do you rename a file?
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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http://www.alastairs-place.net
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