How to make `mv the hard way' fail

[Raye Raskin]

> 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.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ben

If you have enough disk space you could do "cp -pr FROM TO" followed
by "rm -rf FROM" if there are no errors reported by the cp command.

You could do a "diff -qr FROM TO" before the rm to feel even safer.

You could even write a little shell script that does the above, name
it mv, and put it in /usr/local/bin or some other place that comes
before mv.exe in your path.

If you really wanted to, that is.

Raye.


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