Re: New feature in mv

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 12/05/2012 02:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 01:25 AM, Raphael S Carvalho wrote:
>> I was thinking about writing such a program using C language,
>> [...]


> The idea here is that swapping files would be just a thin
> wrapper around the mv or cp or ln utilities which
> already do the heavy lifting in C for copying data
> around (often using complicated techniques), or
> in fact just renaming as appropriate.

Well, maybe a C program execing mv/cp/ln would be easier
to maintain than a shell script regarding portability ...
;-)

Have a nice day,
Berny