Terminology

frankbell · 07-31-2018, 08:30 PM

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I never use a trailing slash. mv works perfectly well without it.

I've been bitten by this one a couple of times, but I haven't done the forensics to determine exactly what happened; maybe I misspelled something or the target directory did not exist, so the moved file took the name of the directory.

I just trained myself to use the /.

hazel · 08-01-2018, 04:40 AM

The wrinkle I have found in mv works the other way around. If I type mv directory1 directory2, expecting it to rename directory1, it doesn't. It just moves directory1 inside directory2 as it might do with any other file. But strangely enough, if I type mv -v directory1 directory2, then it works. I discovered that usage from the LFS book. Now why should asking it to be verbose make such a difference?