From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 10: 5:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC11B37B69D for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from server0 (cr901664-a.pr1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.146.66]) by hawk-systems.com (8.8.8) id LAA26326 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:03:47 -0700 (MST) From: "Dave VanAuken" To: Subject: RE: mv /a/b/c/ .. Bug? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:11:51 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3A5F466D.9FB4D9F8@i-clue.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try this find / -name "c" -print let it run through the works and find where it moved the c directory mv does just that, moves it, doesn't destroy it Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christoph Sold Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 1:01 PM To: Zhiui Zhang Cc: Christoph Sold; Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /a/b/c/ .. Bug? thanks for the fast answer. Zhiui Zhang schrieb: > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Christoph Sold wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > > > I just did something unwise: > > > > # mv /a/b/c/ .. > > > > Now the c directory is gone completely. Can anybody explain why and how? > > > Tell me if there is a new directory named /c? No. As I said: it's gone. Curiously -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message