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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: patch for bin/rm/rm.c
Date: 27 Mar 1993 14:17:42 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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References: <1993Mar24.222133.14022@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <GDAY.93Mar26114912@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> <1993Mar26.223114.1728@coe.montana.edu>
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In comp.os.386bsd.bugs, article <1993Mar26.223114.1728@coe.montana.edu>,
osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
> In article <GDAY.93Mar26114912@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day) writes:
> >
> >don't have the right idea. I find it extremely useful to be able to
> >do something like...
> >
> >mv bar/* foo/
> >
> > ...knowing that the command will _fail_ if foo is not a directory.
>
> huh? in any mv command I use, (and I will admit to not following this
> discussion in its entirety), if there's more than 2 arguments to mv,
> the last one has to be a dir...
Huh? Since when are directories (in this case, "bar") required to hold more
than one file? ;-)
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