Re: mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir'
Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Schwab wrote: >> "Chris Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir'
Andreas Schwab wrote: "Chris Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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"? ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir'
"Chris Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ mv dir .. > mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir' With coreutils 6.9 you'll get "Directory not empty". Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir'
mv seems to think that ../dir is a subdirectory of dir, not realising that .. has a special meaning. Here's a shell transcript that produces the incorrect error message in coreutils 5.97-5.2ubuntu3 (ubuntu 7.04): $ cd $ mkdir test $ cd test $ mkdir ../dir $ mkdir dir $ touch ../dir/x dir/y $ ls -al ../dir dir dir: total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 2007-08-14 18:37 . drwxr-xr-x 3 chris chris 4096 2007-08-14 18:36 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris0 2007-08-14 18:37 y ../dir: total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 2007-08-14 18:37 . drwx-- 104 chris chris 12288 2007-08-14 18:36 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 0 2007-08-14 18:37 x $ mv dir .. mv: cannot move `dir' to a subdirectory of itself, `../dir' $ rm ../dir/x $ ls -al ../dir dir dir: total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 2007-08-14 18:37 . drwxr-xr-x 3 chris chris 4096 2007-08-14 18:36 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris0 2007-08-14 18:37 y ../dir: total 24 drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 2007-08-14 18:38 . drwx-- 104 chris chris 12288 2007-08-14 18:36 .. $ mv dir .. $ ls -al ../dir dir ls: dir: No such file or directory ../dir: total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 2007-08-14 18:37 . drwx-- 104 chris chris 12288 2007-08-14 18:36 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 0 2007-08-14 18:37 y $ Perhaps it's correct behaviour not to allow me to move ./dir into the parent directory when the parent directory contains a non-empty directory with the same name, but the error message that is shown is misleading - ../dir isn't a subdirectory of ./dir ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
