On May 31, 2006, at 7:03 AM, Eric Iverson wrote:
The command:
sudo mv libj601.dylib /usr/lib/.
is correct (the final . means keep the same name).
However, this points out that the shorter, simpler and less confusing:
sudo mv libj601.dylib /usr/lib
would work just as well.
Hello,
Not to be pedantic, but there is a distinct benefit to using a
trailing "." when copying to a directory: it avoids the unintentional
creation of a file when the target directory doesn't exist.
In other words, if the directory "/usr/local/lib" did not exist, and
the following command were given:
mv foo.dylib /usr/local/lib
the result would be a file named "/usr/local/lib" with the contents
formerly named as "foo.dylib".
However, if following command were given, under the same circumstances:
mv foo.dylib /usr/local/lib/.
then an error would result:
mv: rename foo.dylib to /usr/local/lib/.: No such file or directory
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