Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:19:31 -0400 From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> To: "Michael G." <mikegoe@earthlink.net> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: strange mv Message-ID: <20001005101931.C10452@diskfarm.firehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <200010051408.HAA28577@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net>; from mikegoe@earthlink.net on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:08:40AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010050928190.284-100000@jane.cgu.chel.su> <200010051408.HAA28577@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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Unless the network is lying to me again, Michael G. said: > Doing some work as root, moving around some packages I dl'ed I made > two errors and am wondering what happened. First, I was moving > files into a subdirectory and used the wrong slash once (i.e. mv > myfile \subdir) and the file is now gone. No, it moved to a file called subdir in the current directory. The \ was ignored since it was not followed by any other "special" characters. > Second at one point I > typed 'mv ~root/myfile* ' and forgot the dot ..that file is gone > as well. Shouldn't I have gotten error messages instead? Not if there were exactly two files that matched the pattern ~root/myfile* In which case you typed (with expansion): mv ~root/myfile1 ~root/myfile2 Which is perfecly legal. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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