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| author | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2015-12-01 23:30:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2015-12-01 23:30:14 +0100 |
| commit | 7c3f05cf6ccf4d6cad71f93f5b7dbef2d4b7ef78 (patch) | |
| tree | cfc0ed5d1adf0b9fa61ec7000df14bf0f427e794 /doc | |
| parent | f7ab20cd606fe6f66028a382d1b5736c4fea9d15 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-7c3f05cf6ccf4d6cad71f93f5b7dbef2d4b7ef78.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify behaviour of mv for existing target directories
* doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Add a sentence to clarify that
mv(1) will only replace empty directories in the target, and fail with
a diagnostic otherwise. Discussed at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-12/msg00000.html
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index a13c6e7be..595cb9fe2 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -9094,6 +9094,9 @@ However, on other systems (at least FreeBSD 6.1 and Solaris 10) it silently renames not the symlink but rather the directory referenced by the symlink. @xref{Trailing slashes}. +@emph{Note}: @command{mv} will only replace empty directories in the +destination. Conflicting populated directories are skipped with a diagnostic. + The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @table @samp |