From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 10:13:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D9B37B401 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA04617; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:19:54 +0100 Message-ID: <3A5F496C.335D6014@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:14:04 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave VanAuken Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /a/b/c/ .. Bug? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stupid me. Dave, you saved my day. Thanks. I guess I should stop working after 14 hours without pause. -Christoph Sold Dave VanAuken schrieb: > = > 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 -- = Viele Gr=FC=DFe aus Waiblingen Christoph Sold -- Systemadministrator, i-clue GmbH, Endersbacher Str 57, 71334 Waiblingen Fon: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-12, Fax: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-55, Mail: so@i-clue.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message