bug#13601: mv should not silently lose file extended attributes

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2026-08-16 03:24, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> We might get complaints for the extra warnings,
> but I suppose users can `cp -a && rm` for more granular warning support.

POSIX requires just one warning per mv argument, so for the relatively common case of "mv SRCDIR /x/DESTDIR" we could cut the warnings down to one instead of one per file under SRCDIR.
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