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Re: cygwin 1.5.3: "/bin/mv dir dir" results in recursive-loop copy
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: cygwin 1.5.3: "/bin/mv dir dir" results in recursive-loop copy |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:11:58 +0100 |
Tony Clayton <address@hidden> wrote:
> in cygwin 1.5.3, I got the following error after a moment:
> mv: cannot create directory `src/src/src/src/src/src/src [...] /src':
> Invalid argument
mv (from any recent coreutils package)
works fine in that case on unix systems.
> I think it is the MAX_PATH=256 limitation that finally brings this to a
> halt. Each of the subdirectories contains all the source files and a src
> directory.
>
> Running "mv --version shows:
> mv (fileutils) 4.1
> ...
fileutils-4.1 is quite old.
I suggest you use something newer
STABLE
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2
(coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)
BETA
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2