From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 7: 8:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009CA37B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Nikki (user-33qt5d0.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.149.160]) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA28577 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010051408.HAA28577@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> From: "Michael G." To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:08:40 -0500 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: strange mv Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doing some work as root, moving around some packages I dl'ed I made two errors and am wondering what happened. First, I was moving files into a subdirectory and used the wrong slash once (i.e. mv myfile \subdir) and the file is now gone. Second at one point I typed 'mv ~root/myfile* ' and forgot the dot ..that file is gone as well. Shouldn't I have gotten error messages instead? Thanks for any info. Michael G. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Buick Performance...Driving fast with Class Passing everything but gas stations 71 Skylark Custom ICQ #24517082 mikegoe@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message