Moving a File

[Dave]

Oh, and BEWARE!!!

If you have two files:

/FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/FileX.xxx
/FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/FileY.xxx


rename /FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/FileX.xxx to /FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/ 
FileY.xxx

You will end up with one file called FileY.xxx! IOW, if the file  
exists in the destination path it will quite happily OVERWRITE it!

In the documentation it says:

Caution!  This command can be used to rename or move files and  
folders your stack did not create. Of course, a stack should not  
rename or move files and folders it didn't create without obtaining  
explicit confirmation from the user.

However it doesn't say *anything* about overwriting files!

It just gets worse!

All the Best
Dave

************************************************************************
Hi,

But:

a)  I'm not running Unix!

b)  In  the Unix the Command is "mv" (for move) and, AFAIR you can  
say: mv /FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/Filex.xxx /FolderA/FolderB/FolderX/  
which is what I was doing in the first place!

I just don't get it, you take the Unix "move" command, call it  
"rename" and then stop it working like "move". ROFL! Makes no sense  
at all to me! It's a crazy world!

All the Best
Dave

On 6 Mar 2007, at 15:47, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Dave,
>
> in unix, moving a file is the same thing as renaming... ;-)
>
> Cheers
> andre
>
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Dave wrote:
>
>> True, but I'm NOT renaming the file at all!!! It's name stays the  
>> same! So it kinda don't make sense in the first place!!
>>
>> All the Best
>> Dave
>>
>> On 6 Mar 2007, at 15:26, Ian Wood wrote:
>>
>>> Which makes sense, otherwise you'd be renaming the file as a  
>>> folder... ;-)
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> On 6 Mar 2007, at 15:13, Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> One thing to note here is that:
>>>>
>>>> rename "/FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/FileX.xxx" to "FolderA/FolderB/ 
>>>> FolderX/"
>>>>
>>>> Does not work!
>>>>
>>>> In order to make this work you have to use:
>>>>
>>>> rename "/FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/FileX.xxx" to "FolderA/FolderB/ 
>>>> FolderX/FileX.xxx"
>>>>
>>>> All the Best
>>>> Dave
>>>
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