Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:09:34 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man page bug in mv(1) ? Message-ID: <20060910160830.L30289@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060903173729.GA30869@ns.museum.rain.com> References: <20060903173729.GA30869@ns.museum.rain.com>
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, James Long wrote: > The man page mv(1) states: > > "It is an error for either the source operand or the destination path > to specify a directory unless both do." > > > However: > > mv file /tmp/ > > works. Am I reading things wrong, or is the man page incorrect? The man page is correct, but a little misleading unless you read it carefully. The first two paragraphs of the description section define the term "destination path". -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Solution: (n) a watered-down version of something neat.
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