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Re: the mv trap

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From: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: the mv trap
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:44:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> On 2007-08-12 20:57:13 +0000, zzapper wrote:
>> Hi

>> 
>> > mv x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 directory
> 
> Your mv is buggy. It must report the error and must not do any change
> on your files.
> 
Hi,
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.

MM solves this by suggesting a trailing slash

$ mv x3 bucket/
mv: accessing `bucket/': Not a directory





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