How to make `mv the hard way' fail

[Larry Hall]

At 07:40 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote:
>Apologies if this is a FAQ.
>
>When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked
>for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the
>entire directory and then delete the original.
>
>I consider this very dangerous behavior to be happening without my
>specifically requesting it, and I'd like to make this fail rather than doing
>this.  Is there any option in Cygwin to disable this?  Usually it is very
>easy to fix the problem, but I want to be told about it rather than having
>to ^C the mv and hope I caught it before it was in the middle of deleting
>the original.


No, not without altering the source that is. 


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