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in thread A DWIM too far?

I think you'll find that this happens only because RedHat sets up by default an alias (for root only) that rewrites 'mv' to 'mv -i'.

Hugo

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Re^4: A DWIM too far?
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jun 18, 2004 at 01:04 UTC

    It is as you say. 

    [root@devel3 root]# cat .bashrc
[snip]
# User specific aliases and functions
alias mv='mv -i'

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    tachyon

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