On Dec 13, 2010, at 4:55 PM, James Stroud wrote:
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> On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Francis E Reyes wrote:
>> What gives me the willies is using mv... it's so .. permanent... and would drive my spotlight indexer nuts .
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>> I go for symlink :)
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> Symlink fails for the renaming function, f, when f(name_i) == name_j if renaming a set of files containing both name_i and name_j.
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Come to think of it, so will mv.
James
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