Hi, In the info pages for 'mv' is the following statement: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _Warning_: If you try to move a symlink that points to a directory, and you specify the symlink with a trailing slash, then `mv' doesn't move the symlink but instead moves the directory referenced by the symlink. *Note Trailing slashes::. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hmm ok - so I try: $ mkdir a b $ ln -s $PWD/a sym $ mv sym/ b mv: cannot move `sym/' to `b/sym': Not a directory The 'mv' is straight out of recent cvs. I'm in an ext3 filesystem on Linux (Ubuntu). Am I misunderstanding something about that warning or is this a bug? Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
