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Re: mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir'


From: Phillip Susi
Subject: Re: mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir'
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:26:06 -0400
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
"Chris Moore" <address@hidden> writes:

$ mv dir ..
mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir'

With coreutils 6.9 you'll get "Directory not empty".

That also seems incorrect. Shouldn't the error be "A file ( directory ) with that name already exists"?





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