Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 17:08:20 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.org, thud-users@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mv? Message-ID: <199505030008.RAA00305@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 May 95 16:24:28 PDT." <199505022324.QAA08164@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> * >> >> mv work .. > * >> mv: rename work to ../work: Invalid argument > * > > * >Yeah. I've seen it too. I thought it was just me... > * > * It's not valid to move a directory into itself. > >I'm not sure what you are talking about. I was trying to move a >directory "work" into the parent directory. So, if we are in >"foo/bar", "foo/bar/work" is going to be "foo/work". Sorry, I agree that it shouldn't fail - I was thinking "mv work ." when I said the above. I tried to reproduce the problem here and couldn't. -DG
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