From 1ac491f062c74edb0a3d4609c0ad4b87b4e25f03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:38:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Mention that mv can now remove an empty destination directory, and give an example. Prompted by a report from Florent Bayle. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ NEWS | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 277ee3ec94..a4391a408a 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-07-07 Jim Meyering + + * NEWS: Mention that mv can now remove an empty destination directory, + and give an example. Prompted by a report from Florent Bayle. + 2006-07-05 Jim Meyering * src/ls.c (usage): Correct the description of -G: it is useful diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 614c69f432..bac4ecd2ec 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- mv: moving a symlink into the place of an existing non-directory is now done atomically; before, mv would first unlink the destination. - mv -T DIR EMPTY_DIR no longer fails unconditionally + mv -T DIR EMPTY_DIR no longer fails unconditionally. Also, mv can + now remove an empty destination directory: mkdir -p a b/a; mv a b rm (on systems with openat) can no longer exit before processing all command-line arguments. -- 2.47.3