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From: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: picnix3  mv
Keywords: To a non-existent directory---phooom!
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Date: 8 Jun 88 14:55:14 GMT
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In article <27734@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
>The corrected mv command with picnix3 still has a
>small problem:  If you should happen to request a
>move of a file to a non-existent directory, it
>"moves" it and deletes it from the source
>directory---all silently.  
>
>I did this accidentally, misspelling the name of
>an existent directory.  The file disappeared.
>

I was unable to recreate this problem. When you give the command 'mv name1
name2', it checks for the existence of name2. If it does not exist, name1 is
renamed to name2. If it does exist, and it is a directory, the file is given
the name name2\name1. When you mispelled the name of the directory, it
should have created a file with the name you typed. If you gave a complete
pathname, and mispelled one of the subdirectories, MV would have given you a
'CANNOT CREATE error'.

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