On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Re: Find/move question.:
>
> Obviously, mv is seeing the { and } because you escaped them. You want
> _something_ to expand them into the filename before giving them to mv.
> ; does need to be escaped, I think.
Expanstion maybe, however "mv" arguments given in the wrong context may
and i belive will delete files regardless of "them being copied to another
dir". What i mean is the commands used by the question asker would in my
opinion simply erase the *.gif files after the script line "thought" they
were "moved" to another dir, as they could have been, however they were
written to "one" file which means no readable file(s) left in the
destination dir, as well as the origanal dir(s) because "mv" erased them.
At least thats what happend here in my 2 test directory's when i tryed.
>
> Lawson
--
Regards Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
