-T option help text

2009-09-03 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Philip Rowlands wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, James R. Van Zandt wrote: For the help text, here are some alternatives: if DEST is a directory, then delete it first This isn't what -T does. If DEST is an empty directory then it's overwritten with the rename(2) system call.

Re: -T option help text

2009-08-31 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, James R. Van Zandt wrote: For the help text, here are some alternatives: if DEST is a directory, then delete it first This isn't what -T does. If DEST is an empty directory then it's overwritten with the rename(2) system call. Otherwise mv will fail e.g. if SOURCE

-T option help text

2009-08-30 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Kamil Dudka wrote: On Sunday 30 of August 2009 03:11:34 James R. Van Zandt wrote: ...(I'd first have to check the help printout to see that it's not -T I wanted after all. Then check the info page, because the -T description is so unhelpful. But that's a separate issue.) What exactly is