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and subject line Bug#121776: fileutils: mv misbehaves when source pathname is a
symlink and ends in a /
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Package: fileutils
Version: 4.1-7
Severity: normal
Note how the first mv does a rename() on the symlink, while the second
duplicates the file tree then deletes the original symlink.
Presumably this has to do with this snippet from `info mv':
`mv' can move any type of file from one filesystem to another.
Prior to version `4.0' of the fileutils, `mv' could move only regular
files between filesystems. For example, now `mv' can move an entire
directory hierarchy including special device files from one partition
straum% mkdir foo
straum% touch foo/a foo/b
straum% ln -s foo bar
straum% mv bar zork
straum% ls -lF
total 1
drwxrwxr-x 2 adi adi 1024 Nov 29 16:17 foo/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 adi adi 3 Nov 29 16:17 zork -> foo/
straum% mv zork/ bar
straum% ls -lF
total 2
drwxrwxr-x 2 adi adi 1024 Nov 29 16:17 bar/
drwxrwxr-x 2 adi adi 1024 Nov 29 16:17 foo/
straum% mv --version
mv (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux straum 2.4.16 #1 SMP Wed Nov 28 21:25:44 CST 2001 i686
unknown
Versions of the packages fileutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
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Version: 6.10-1
Hi,
The behaviour of "mv symlink-to-dir/ dir2" changed. It is still
inconsistent with the info documentation, but that bug is documented in
bug #343652.
I am closing bugs #121776 and #122233 since the incorrect behaviour
described by those bugs no longer happens.
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