Hello,
I was wondering if it was generally known that "mv" will delete
a directory if the source and destination are the same. I noticed this
problem when I was trying to change a directory name from uppercase to
lowercase.
Example:
========
FS0:\> mkdir TEST
FS0:\> dir
Directory of: FS0:\
02/12/2013 12:30 <DIR> 0 efi
03/05/2013 15:58 <DIR> 0 TEST
0 File(s)
2 Dir(s)
FS0:\> mv TEST test
Moving FS0:\TEST -> \TEST\TEST
- [ok]
FS0:\> dir
Directory of: FS0:\
02/12/2013 12:30 <DIR> 0 efi
0 File(s)
1 Dir(s)
FS0:\>
I looks like the "mv" command moves the directory to a sub-directory of
itself and then deletes it. This effectively kills the directory. Is
this how it is supposed to work? Yikes. If you try the same thing with
a file it fails with this error message.
FS0:\> mv test.txt TEST.TXT
Error. The destination is an existant file 'TEST.TXT'.
It would be nice if the "mv" command was fixed to allow a person
to rename files and directories from lowercase to uppercase, etc.
However, as it stands now, the "mv" directory command is a very
dangerous beast.
Thanks,
Stephen
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