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Subject: Re: mv? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 17:08:20 -0700
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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