docs/101330: man page for mv(1) is misleading
Peter Gildea
peter at gildea.com
Thu Aug 3 20:30:20 UTC 2006
>Number: 101330
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: man page for mv(1) is misleading
>Confidential: yes
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 03 20:30:18 GMT 2006
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Peter Gildea
>Release: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD phobia.gildea.net 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #5: Fri Jun 9 23:14:55 PDT 2006 peter at phobia.gildea.net:/usr/src/sys-altq/compile/PHOBIA-SMP-ALTQ i386
Problem seems to exist in all versions of FreeBSD.
Description:
mv(1) contains the sentence: "It is an error for either the source operand or the destination path to specify a directory unless both do.
How-To-Repeat:
man mv
Fix:
Remove this sentence from man page.
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