Re: mv: Moving directories to "themselves" (not the bug with incorrect error message)

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 11/18/2007 6:20 AM:
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>> Could you think about it, please? It would be great if at least a
>> switch for it was added to mv (and other coreutils).
> 
> What you appear to be wanting is a new option to mv, maybe spelled like
> 'mv --merge'.  But such a feature is not part of coreutils yet, because no
> one has submitted a patch for it.

As a followup, I'm pretty sure rsync already does what you are looking
for, so why bloat mv to do something that can be done with another tool?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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