On 3 September 2006, at 12:37, James Long wrote:
The man page mv(1) states:
"It is an error for either the source operand or the destination path
to specify a directory unless both do."
However:
mv file /tmp/
works. Am I reading things wrong, or is the man page incorrect?
I think what it means is you cannot move a directory to a file. You
also can't move a file so it becomes a directory. FOr example:
snowy:~ hackmiester$ mv blah blahdir/
mv: rename blah to blahdir/: No such file or directory
You are actually moving the file INTO the directory, not trying to
make a file BE a directory. See what I mean?
Jim
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