From: Bernhard Voelker Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 22:30:14 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: clarify behaviour of mv for existing target directories X-Git-Tag: v8.25~69 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7c3f05cf6ccf4d6cad71f93f5b7dbef2d4b7ef78;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git doc: clarify behaviour of mv for existing target directories * doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Add a sentence to clarify that mv(1) will only replace empty directories in the target, and fail with a diagnostic otherwise. Discussed at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-12/msg00000.html --- diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index a13c6e7be6..595cb9fe24 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -9094,6 +9094,9 @@ However, on other systems (at least FreeBSD 6.1 and Solaris 10) it silently renames not the symlink but rather the directory referenced by the symlink. @xref{Trailing slashes}. +@emph{Note}: @command{mv} will only replace empty directories in the +destination. Conflicting populated directories are skipped with a diagnostic. + The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @table @samp