mv does not overwrite destination file

DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
Sat Jul 31 18:34:00 GMT 1999


> However, when I try to move a file 'src' to existing file 'dest' and the
> two files are on different drives, the move fails:

Good!  It fails on Unix also (unless mv is smart and does a copy
instead), if the files are on different filesystems.  However, the
error is supposed to be EXDEV.  That's probably confusing gnu mv,
which is probably one of the smart ones.

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