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Very nice! It might be helpful to say that at the end you have a link from z to b!

Vincenzo Pii
– Vincenzo Pii

2016-05-11 07:44:36 +00:00
Commented May 11, 2016 at 7:44
For an OS-independent solution use a scripting language which is capable to to use the rename syscall directly instead of mv -h or mv -T. For example with Perl: perl -e 'rename "z.new", "z" or die $!'

Slaven Rezic
– Slaven Rezic

2018-04-04 12:30:50 +00:00
Commented Apr 4, 2018 at 12:30

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