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What has happened to the file when I entered “mv file.txt ../”?
I wanted to move 'file.txt' one folder up, but instead of mv file.txt ../file.txt I entered mv file.txt ../.
Now the file is gone and I didn't get any error message. So it seems the some action was ...
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mv a file without breaking a symlink to that file
Is it possible to mv a file w/out breaking a symbolic link to that file?
My initial response to this is no, and I'm working out a script based solution to change the links immediately following the ...
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Strategies for maintaining a reference to a file after it was moved or renamed?
I've had a mac at work lately, and was amazed to see that Xcode would still find my latest project after I renamed its folder and moved it someplace else.
Now I understand that this is the result of ...
