Paolo wrote: > I think I've found a "mv" command bug (in Ubuntu 10.04's terminal).
Thank you for your bug report. However we will need more information from you in order to tell what is happening. Because I cannot recreate your problem. > When I write " mv [directory name] -/[directory name]", it doesn't move > the first directory, she disappears! Is that dash character '-' literally there? If so then that should produce an error. Because with a leading dash the string will look like an option argument and slash '/' is not a valid option argument. Therefore the characters you are showing us cannot be the command that is causing you the behavior you are describing to us. You must be doing something different from this. If you can create a repeatable test case so that we can recreate your problem then that is best. Regardless we will need to know *exactly* the command that you used. For example I tried the following commands. $ mkdir x $ cd x $ mkdir a b $ touch a/foo b/bar $ find . ./b ./b/bar ./a ./a/foo $ mv a b $ find . ./b ./b/bar ./b/a ./b/a/foo That worked completely as expected. The directory 'a' was moved and since the target 'b' was also a directory it moved the directory 'a' into the directory 'b'. If you could exactly what you are doing and the result that you are getting when you are experiencing your problem then we could probably help you with it. Bob
