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LukeShu on May 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unix filesystems: How mv can be dangerous

> I believe GNU mv was the first to do that, but I could be mistaken.

I was mistaken: BSD mv gained copying directories across devices in 1989, GNU mv didn't get that until 1998

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