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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/bin/mv mv.1 mv.c
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>> $ touch a b;mv -fi a b
>> $

>...which violates the standard.  Since the `i' flag is given last, it
>is the one which must be obeyed.

That's right.  FreeBSD's mv has always violated the standard.  Wolfram
fixed it, but the changes were backed out so it's broken again.

Bruce