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From: Comeau At9Fans <comeauat9fans@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] FAT32 question
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:16:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE9W7-giZWE7V-7KO9uAy+xqW+dNNZctf8HwbMO_OPJM9hwN1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51531827.8040800@yahoo.fr>

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> On 27/03/2013 15:18, Comeau At9Fans wrote:
>>... I seem to be
>> past this part of things as I just tried mv'ing on Plan 9 itself
>> rather than the host system and that seems to be letting x.c be seen
>> as itself...
> Maybe a solution would be do to this in two passes.  Since x.c and X.C
> describe the same file, it is not possible to rename it directly:
>
>   cpu% touch X.C
>   cpu% mv X.C x.c
>   mv: X.C and ./x.c are the same
>
> Just try something like this:
>
>   cpu% mv X.C _x.c
>   cpu% mv _x.c x.c
>   cpu% ls *.c
>   x.c
>   cpu%

That's exactly what I did, however, from what I could see, it only
worked if mv'd on Plan 9.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-27 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-27 12:24 Comeau At9Fans
2013-03-27 12:33 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-27 14:18   ` Comeau At9Fans
2013-03-27 16:02     ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-03-27 16:16       ` Comeau At9Fans [this message]
2013-03-27 12:36 ` tlaronde
2013-03-27 12:39 ` dexen deVries
2013-03-27 13:07 ` Stuart Morrow
2013-03-27 15:44 ` Bakul Shah

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