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Re: Portability of "mv -f"
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: Portability of "mv -f" |
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21 Sep 2000 18:10:18 -0700 |
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Ian Lance Taylor <address@hidden> writes:
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Pavel Roskin <address@hidden>
> How portable is "mv -f" used in autoheader.sh? If it is, I believe we
> should switch to using it everywhere to avoid any unwanted
> interactivity.
> I believe that mv -f is fully portable. I think the only portable
> options to mv are -f and -i.
I know that cp -f definitely *isn't* portable. I forget where it
misbehaved, but it was a bug report against one of my earlier packages.
Unfortunately, it was for an old Makefile whose revision history I didn't
save when I rewrote the package as a Perl module. SunOS, maybe?
I don't know if that follows for mv or not.
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Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>