Re: docs/101330: man page for mv(1) is misleading

The following reply was made to PR docs/101330; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
To: Peter Gildea <peter@gildea.com>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/101330: man page for mv(1) is misleading
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:31:46 +0300

 On 2006-08-03 13:25, Peter Gildea <peter@gildea.com> wrote:
 > mv(1) contains the sentence:
 > "It is an error for either the source operand or the destination path
 > to specify a directory unless both do.

 > Remove this sentence from man page.

 I think what the manpage tries to state is that you can:

     - move a file to a file
     - move a file to a directory
     - move a directory inside another directory

 but you cannot

     - move a directory on top of a non-directory object.

 Perhaps, we should remove it and write something like the above
 text?

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