Bug 6593 – mv erroneously does recursive moves

Bug 6593 - mv erroneously does recursive moves

Summary:	mv erroneously does recursive moves

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	fileutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Cristian Gafton
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Reported:	1999-11-01 03:14 EST by tony
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-02-17 15:21:42 EST
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Description tony 1999-11-01 03:14:24 EST

ls -l
[several files and directories listed]
mkdir dir
mv * dir
[long pause, disk thrashing, not good]
^C
ls -F
dir/
ls -l dir/
[moved files + dir/]
ls -l dir/dir/
[moved files + another dir/ !!!]

Bad news.  mv should complain about an "invalid arguement"
when trying to mv dir/ into dir/ and should not do it
recursively.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-02-17 15:21:59 EST

Works for me with 4.0-19

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