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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: the mv trap
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:36:38 +0200
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On 2007-08-13 08:32:09 -0400, Atom Smasher wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, zzapper wrote:
>
>> red face; in fact my mv does report "not a directory". My problem is 
>> reduced to unintentionally moving a single file to another single file 
>> rather than the intended directory.
> ================
>
> alias mv="mv -i"

This won't change anything if the target doesn't exist yet.

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