also sprach Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.18.1630 +0100]: > Why don't you just do "mv a/* foo/a", if that's what you want?
When the task is to integrate one hiararchy with another, and some target dirs are already present, others are not, the above is not feasible. > I doubt GNU mv will ever do something like that for you, given the > command "mv a foo". Why not? Is there actually a technical reason for not supporting this? In my view, it's an enhancement for those who need it without getting into someone else's way. And I doubt people actually rely on /bin/mv to find out when a non-empty target directory already exists. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer and author: http://debiansystem.info `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system
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