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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Torbjorn Granlund <tege@matematik.su.se>
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Subject: Re: Bogus mv behaviour
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On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> When moving directories across filesystems, e.g., "mv SOURCEDIR/A DESTDIR",
> if DESTDIR/A exists, SOURCEDIR/A will be made into DESTDIR/A/A.  That's very
> surprising, in particular when many directories are moved in the same
> command, and they end up at different levels.
>

	Why is that surprising?  Or do you think that if you do:

	mv SRCDIR/A-DIR DESTDIR/B-DIR

	that all the files in A-DIR should be moved into B-DIR itself instead
of moving DIR-A into DIR-B?
	
	If I mv A-DIR to DESTDIR/A-DIR, I'm expecting that its the
directory as a whole I'm moving, not the contents individually...


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