[conspire] (forw) Re: UNIX beginner asks: what's a good forum for q's about command-line utilities?

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Sep 5 06:43:42 PDT 2010


Quoting Tony Godshall (tony at of.net):

> Michael Gray:

He's not on this mailing list.  I've just sent him an offlist copy of
your posting, since you didn't CC him.

> Sorry if this is too picky, but rsync *copies* files.  The OP wanted
> to *move* files.

It should be noted that the '--remove-source-files' option (which
Deirdre did not include) can turn rsync into a passably OK 'mv' utility,
though it would not be my first choice.





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