On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Andy Pieters wrote: > 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? No. A directory that doesn't exist is ../ogg . >From /home/ogg/incomming , .. = /home/ogg . ../ogg/incomming would be /home/ogg/ogg/incomming . -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't."
