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


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir'
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:26:12 +0200
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Phillip Susi <address@hidden> writes:

> 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"?

No.  If the directory was empty it would just be overwritten, so the
non-emptyness is the key for the error (and it's directly the error the
kernel returns).

Andreas.

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