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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-07-07 06:38:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-07-07 06:38:36 +0000 |
| commit | 1ac491f062c74edb0a3d4609c0ad4b87b4e25f03 (patch) | |
| tree | 39a6a76a26e64a6251c018fa7c704a743179ecec | |
| parent | b544360dab85d1a0256062d9d32c56ede4393dba (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-1ac491f062c74edb0a3d4609c0ad4b87b4e25f03.tar.xz | |
* NEWS: Mention that mv can now remove an empty destination directory,
and give an example. Prompted by a report from Florent Bayle.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-07-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention that mv can now remove an empty destination directory, + and give an example. Prompted by a report from Florent Bayle. + 2006-07-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * src/ls.c (usage): Correct the description of -G: it is useful @@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- mv: moving a symlink into the place of an existing non-directory is now done atomically; before, mv would first unlink the destination. - mv -T DIR EMPTY_DIR no longer fails unconditionally + mv -T DIR EMPTY_DIR no longer fails unconditionally. Also, mv can + now remove an empty destination directory: mkdir -p a b/a; mv a b rm (on systems with openat) can no longer exit before processing all command-line arguments. |