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Re: a serious bug in "mv"


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: a serious bug in "mv"
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:50:32 +0100 (MET)

   I simply do not believe this behavior is intentional, nor "as
   planned".

It is the correct behaviour. "mv Dir/*.*" gets expanded (by the shell)
to "mv Dir/A.txt Dir/B.txt", and this is what you got.  If you'd like
to be warned of what mv does, you can supply the -i option to it,
which will ask for confirmation before each file it moves.

Sorry for your loss though...




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