bug in 'mv'

Chris Ruffin c.ruffin@ieee.org
Sat Jan 19 20:36:00 GMT 2002


mv from fileutils 4.1 doesn't use a case-insensitive test to make sure that we aren't doing something stupid like:

$ mv A a

where A is a directory.  This causes mv to go into infinite recursion trying to move A to a, because windows is case-insensitive.

Chris Ruffin


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