mv bug

[Michal Vitecek]

 hello,

 today i did:
    mv -f filename filename
 the result was that mv warned me about the same file name and happily
 removed it altogether! shouldn't it test whether the two file names are
 the same and if they are, do nothing? sorry, but its current behaviour
 seems completely illogical to me:

    address@hidden ~/]$ ls -l test
    -rw-r--r--   1 fuf      fuf            12 Jun  9 16:48 test
    address@hidden ~/]$ mv test test
    mv: `test' and `test' are the same file
    address@hidden ~/]$ ls -l test
    -rw-r--r--   1 fuf      fuf            12 Jun  9 16:48 test
    address@hidden ~/]$ mv -f test test
    mv: `test' and `test' are the same file
    address@hidden ~/]$ ls -l test
    ls: test: No such file or directory

 i understand the -f behaviour when the two files are not the same, but
 why it removes the same file is completely beyond me.

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