[plug] mv

Adrian Chadd adrian at creative.net.au
Thu Feb 8 08:30:20 WST 2007


On Thu, Feb 08, 2007, Shannon Carver wrote:
> I've been wondering exactly the same thing.  I had alias mv='mv -vg' in 
> my .bashrc and it took me about 5 minutes to work out why a simple mv 
> command was failing with an error.  Since then, I've been able to find 
> no information on it, and searching brings no results either.

you could grab the source from the distribution w/ the "friendly mv" and
compile it for your local system.. :P

(and put it in /usr/local/mv/bin/, or /opt/mv/bin, so you don't get
trampled every time the base utilities get updated..)



Adrian




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