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From: "Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gma...>
Subject: [9fans] mv on directory
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:15:05 +0100

Hello,

I wonder why 'mv' is not allowed to act on directories. I found
somewhere this argument:
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What should mv do to a `tree' that resides on multiple file servers?
If you can't do something right, sometimes it's not worth doing at
all.

-rob
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but this doesn't go well in my ears when put alongside with the
existence of recursive rm ('rm -r').

Thanks
Ruda Sykora