Shawn McKinney wrote:
> mv apache-tomcat-8.0.30 /usr/local/tomcat8
>
> Not sure why on a Mac (in Bash) the mv command appends distro name to the
> path and not in Linux.
BSD (Mac) vs. GNU (Linux) seem to differ in behavior when the second parameter
is a directory that already exists:
BSD mv:
NAME
mv -- move files
SYNOPSIS
mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
DESCRIPTION
In its first form, the mv utility renames the file named by the source
operand to the destination path named by the target operand. This form is
assumed
when the last operand does not name an already existing directory.
In its second form, mv moves each file named by a source operand to a
destination file in the existing directory named by the directory operand. The
des
tination path for each operand is the pathname produced by the
concatenation of the last operand, a slash, and the final pathname component of
the named
file.
GNU mv:
`mv' moves or renames files (or directories). Synopses:
mv [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
mv [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...
* If two file names are given, `mv' moves the first file to the
second.
* If the `--target-directory' (`-t') option is given, or failing
that if the last file is a directory and the
`--no-target-directory' (`-T') option is not given, `mv' moves
each SOURCE file to the specified directory, using the SOURCEs'
names.
