Re: mv missing destination operand message

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
> $ mv foo
> mv: missing destination file operand after `/u/karl/tmp/paper.ltx'
>
> The destination operand doesn't have to be a file, it is often a
> directory.  So I suggest deleting "file".  Not that I will argue if you
> decide not to :).

Hi Karl,

Thanks for the suggestion.
However, "file" is often used not to distinguish between symlink,
directory, fifo, block device, etc, but rather to denote a generic file
system "object", and that's the intent here.  That same diagnostic is
also used in cp, ln, and install, so I'd like to keep it as is.