Hello!
Working on a problem with diffutils 3.12 on the same platform (bug#77840) I see
in the log file of the basic diffutils tests (with vi, because GNU Emacs has a
problem with millions of NUL characters):
126 + mv k out
127 mv: cannot stat 'out/k': Not a directory
It comes from this test in diffutils-3.12/tests/basic:
33 echo a > a
34 echo b > b
35 for opt in '' -u -c; do
36 returns_ 1 diff $opt a b > out 2> err || fail=1
37 # Remove date and time.
38 sed -e 's/^\([-+*][-+*][-+*] [^ ]*\) .*/\1/' out > k; mv k
out
39 compare exp-$(echo $opt|tr ' ' _) out || fail=1
40 done
Similarly on the command line (tcsh) this irregular behaviour can be observed:
pete 264 /\ gtouch a b
pete 265 /\ cp -v a b
a -> b
pete 266 /\ env LANG=C gcp -v a b
gcp: cannot stat 'b/a': Not a directory
Exit 1
pete 267 /\ gcp -v a ./c
'a' -> './c'
pete 268 /\ mv -v a b
a -> b
pete 269 /\ env LANG=C gmv -v b c
gmv: cannot stat 'c/b': Not a directory
Exit 1
pete 270 /\ env LANG=C gmv -v b ./c
gmv: cannot stat './c/b': Not a directory
Exit 1
pete 271 /\ env LANG=C gls -l a b c
gls: cannot access 'a': No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 pete wheel 0 May 20 17:47 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 pete wheel 0 May 20 17:47 c
Exit 2
pete 272 /\
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Greetings
Pete
Theory and practice are the same, in theory, but, in practice, they are
different.
