RE: the mv trap

["Seth Kurtzberg" <seth@xxxxxxx>]

Most recent versions of mv or cp warn you if there are more than two
arguments and the last argument is not a directory.

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From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of zzapper
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 4:57 PM
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Subject: the mv trap

Hi
One of unix's little traps is when you intended to move some files to a 
directory but you mis-typed the destination directory and instead copied all

your files to a file created with the mistyped folder name as name. In fact 
this file becomes a kind of a black-hole for all but the last listed files

This is made worse if you don't notice your error.

Is there any Zsh solution/warning to this ?

> mv x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 directory

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zzapper
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