system disks

[mcmanus at AppliedTheory.com (Patrick McManus)]

mv does the tests for you though.. so if the file doesn't move (and
it's in a copy mode because of fs stuff) it won't unlink the
original..


In a previous episode David Kramer said...
:: 
:: On Fri, 26 May 2000, Patrick McManus wrote:
:: 
:: > it is a heck of a lot safer than "cp -p *; rm *" though as you get per
:: > file error checking..
:: 
:: I'm sorry.  As long as we're getting picky here, in my mind it is a LOT
:: safer to cp then rm than it is to mv, because you can check the cp before
:: you do the rm.  The mv is atomic, and if it didn't do what you want,
:: you're SOL.
:: 
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