Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020502104654.0246ccb8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 10:51:45 -0400 To: Sylvain Petreolle , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: mv problem Cc: spetreolle@yahoo.fr In-Reply-To: <20020502132242.10650.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:22 AM 5/2/2002, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >Hi all, > >I got a problem when running mv : > >i have the directory abc and want to rename >it as Abc (or something that changes the >capitalisation only). > >I get the following result : > >$ mv abc Abc >mv: cannot create directory >`Abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc >/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc': Invalid argument Hm, I don't see that here: #mv abc Abc mv: cannot move `abc' to a subdirectory of itself, `Abc/abc' What version of Cygwin and mv are you using? What does the directory structure of "abc" look like? As you can see, you cannot rename file differing only by case. This is a Windowsism. Sorry. Complain to Bill if you don't like it! ;-) You'll need to do this as a two step process (i.e. move 'abc' to a different name temporarily and then move it to 'Abc'). I can't say why you got the result you did however. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/