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RE: How to make `mv the hard way' fail


> 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.

:)

Maybe someone could add an option to `mv' to make it fail rather than
copy/rm? E.g. --no-copy.



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