martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.18.1456 +0100]: >> Your example tried to move a nonempty directory to a new place, >> where the new place is already occupied by a nonempty directory. >> mv has never been able to do that. > > Ok. Right. And that's actually how I came upon this bug, because > I was trying to form a case to support it, so if you move > a directory a/ to foo/, and foo/a/ exists, then mv should just move > a/* to foo/a/ and rmdir a afterwards...
Why don't you just do "mv a/* foo/a", if that's what you want? I doubt GNU mv will ever do something like that for you, given the command "mv a foo". Depending on what your goal is, using mv's --backup option might be enough. That will move aside any destination before doing the rename. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
