error mv: `../oxyspool/temp_oxy' and `../oxyspool/oxyfilenames' are the same file

suchi_sood · 12-28-2006, 10:48 PM

error in move command.
mv -f ../oxyspool/temp_oxy ../oxyspool/oxyfilenames
error: mv: `../oxyspool/temp_oxy' and `../oxyspool/oxyfilenames' are the same file.
why?
name of source file and destination file are different..
but giving the of same file.. why?

zhangmaike · 12-28-2006, 11:14 PM

It's possible that one file is a link to the other.

Post the output of:

Code:

stat ../oxyspool/temp_oxy ../oxyspool/oxyfilenames

penguiniator · 12-28-2006, 11:16 PM

Could it be that both file names point to the same inode? In other words, are both filenames links to the same file? If you do an ls -l on one of the files, one of the fields in the listing should tell you how many links there are to the file.

suchi_sood · 12-29-2006, 04:00 AM

as such there is no soft link created for a file.
as soon as the file is created its removed after it is used..
cant see the output of stat ...