feature request: delete after copy

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Wed Dec 12 15:04:49 UTC 2001


Hi, Klaus!

> I have to move a lot of data to a filesystem which is remotely mounted by
> smb through a ssh tunnel.
> The problem is, that I cannot chown, so I am not able to use the "move"
> command of midnight commander, but "copy" insted (with switching off
> "preserve attributes".

Even if you cannot chown you should be able to use the "move" command.  
That's the problem that needs to be fixed.  If you can reproduce it with
the latest version of mc please report it as a bug and give more
information.

> However, one copy session can take some hours or even days, and it would be
> great if mc really could remove sigle files as soon as they are transfered
> (as move does).
> 
> Is there probably a workaround for me at the current time?

You should use a script.  MC is an interactive program.  It's not the best 
choice for the operations that take days to complete.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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