From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 9:49:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5D937B404 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:49:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0CHmxl03799; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:48:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:48:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Christoph Sold Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /a/b/c/ .. Bug? Message-ID: <20010112114858.A953@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3A5F40FB.BA91E66A@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.13i In-Reply-To: <3A5F40FB.BA91E66A@i-clue.de>; from "Christoph Sold" on Fri Jan 12 18:38:03 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 12), Christoph Sold said: > Hi Folks, > > I just did something unwise: > > # mv /a/b/c/ .. > > Now the c directory is gone completely. Can anybody explain why and how? It shouldn't be gone; it should be one directory up from whereever you ran the mv command. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message