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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Subject: Re: patch for bin/rm/rm.c Message-ID: <1993Mar26.223114.1728@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CS References: <1oligtINN6mj@ftp.UU.NET> <CGD.93Mar23164609@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1993Mar24.222133.14022@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <GDAY.93Mar26114912@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 22:31:14 GMT Lines: 20 In article <GDAY.93Mar26114912@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day) writes: > >>>>"terry" == A Wizard of Earth C <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: > >First of all, only case 1 is inconsistent with cases 2 and 3. >Secondly, just because SunOs is inconsistent does not mean that they >don't have the right idea. I find it extremely useful to be able to >do something like... > >mv bar/* foo/ > > ...knowing that the command will _fail_ if foo is not a directory. huh? in any mv command I use, (and I will admit to not following this discussion in its entirety), if there's more than 2 arguments to mv, the last one has to be a dir... -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu