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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-21 06:42:46 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-21 06:42:46 +0000
commit6c39554090a9ea99eaf634b6be80ac789e891364 (patch)
tree233aaf3ecff02302703e07cb1db264aefb2d4244 /bin
parent8d00e1a26097ccc6bfe5e91f5ed6d746f529d211 (diff)
various doc fixes related to how mv handles symlinks
and file system traversal; this is work from Ingo Schwarze, tweaked a little by myself, and we borrowed half a sentence from the netbsd man page too; ok sobrado
Diffstat (limited to 'bin')
-rw-r--r--bin/mv/mv.118
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/bin/mv/mv.1 b/bin/mv/mv.1
index c01d2393b5e..7a2f0610209 100644
--- a/bin/mv/mv.1
+++ b/bin/mv/mv.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mv.1,v 1.23 2008/05/26 21:12:48 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mv.1,v 1.24 2008/10/21 06:42:45 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mv.1,v 1.8 1995/03/21 09:06:51 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)mv.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 26 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 21 2008 $
.Dt MV 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
In its first form, the
.Nm
-utility renames the file named by the
+utility moves the file named by the
.Ar source
operand to the destination path named by the
.Ar target
@@ -96,17 +96,21 @@ options is the one which affects
.Nm mv Ns 's
behavior.
.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+utility moves symbolic links, not the files referenced by the links.
+.Pp
If the destination path does not have a mode which permits writing,
.Nm
prompts the user for confirmation as specified for the
.Fl i
option.
.Pp
-As the
+Should the
.Xr rename 2
-call does not work across file systems,
+call fail because the source and destination are on different file systems,
.Nm
-uses
+will use
.Xr cp 1
and
.Xr rm 1
@@ -143,6 +147,8 @@ $ mv -i ./-f bar
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cp 1 ,
+.Xr rm 1 ,
+.Xr rename 2 ,
.Xr symlink 7
.Sh STANDARDS
The