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Hi all
I have been noticing some strange behaviour and was hoping someone here is more experienced to know what is going on.
Directory structure
+home +--ogg | +-- incomming \--incomming
So I do
cd ~/incomming
mv *.mp3 ../ogg/incomming
Result: mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
cp *.mp3 ../ogg/incomming
Result: cp: `../ogg/incomming': specified destination directory does not exist
file ../ogg/incomming
../ogg/incomming: ERROR: cannot open `../ogg/incomming' (No such file or directory)
WTF?
cd ../ogg/incomming file . .: directory mv ../../incomming/*.mp3 . Result: ok
Weird isn't it?
Andy
Andy, it sounds like an issue with symlinks. I have come across this before. is the ~/incomming directory a symlink? I ask this as I have run into this issue when working from symlink directories.
I just did a quick test.
mkdir TEST cd TEST mkdir test2 ln -s ../dir1/dir2 cd dir2 (the symlink) cp somefile ../test2 cd .. ls test 2 {No files found.}
cd ../dir1/
ls -l test2
{returned the copied file.}Is this normal operation or is this a bug?
-- Robin Laing
