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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 1996 05:28:29 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/bin/mv mv.1 mv.c
Message-ID:  <199602191828.FAA10270@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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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



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