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Re: Bug in mv (5.0)


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: Bug in mv (5.0)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:24:27 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

<address@hidden> wrote:
> I think a safer and more intuitive way would be that when wildcards
> are used, mv would treat the file* expression as single source
> argument and tell the user to provide a destination.

mv has no way of knowing whether wildcards were used.  The shell
expands wildcards before invoking mv.


paul




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