Re: mv bug

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest release.
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz

Michal Vitecek <address@hidden> wrote:
|  today i did:
|     mv -f filename filename
|  the result was that mv warned me about the same file name and happily
|  removed it altogether! shouldn't it test whether the two file names are
|  the same and if they are, do nothing? sorry, but its current behaviour
|  seems completely illogical to me:
|
|     address@hidden ~/]$ ls -l test
|     -rw-r--r--   1 fuf      fuf            12 Jun  9 16:48 test
|     address@hidden ~/]$ mv test test
|     mv: `test' and `test' are the same file
|     address@hidden ~/]$ ls -l test
|     -rw-r--r--   1 fuf      fuf            12 Jun  9 16:48 test
|     address@hidden ~/]$ mv -f test test
|     mv: `test' and `test' are the same file
|     address@hidden ~/]$ ls -l test
|     ls: test: No such file or directory
|
|  i understand the -f behaviour when the two files are not the same, but
|  why it removes the same file is completely beyond me.