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Re: mv missing destination operand message


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: mv missing destination operand message
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:01:11 +0200
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Removing the one-arg feature of ln is not an option, as I'm sure you
> know.  GNU ln has been that way for a very long time -- probably since
> the beginning.

In fact, it's already in 2BSD.  But both cp and mv always required at
least two arguments.

Andreas.

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