Re: recursive mv return invalid argument
From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 07/03/03
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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 05:37:58 -0400
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 16:40:39 -0400, Ben Thomas
<bthomas@trey-industries.com> wrote:
> for fff in 'find ./ -type f -name *.txt'; do
> mv -- $fff $fff.bak
> done
>
> GAVE ME THIS:
> mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory Try `mv
> --help' for more information.
> file in the dir are:
> [bthomas@pippin temp]$ ls -l
> total 12
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 bthomas bthomas 71 Jul 2 15:21 benscript
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bthomas bthomas 188 Jul 2 14:42 qtest.txt
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bthomas bthomas 188 Jul 2 10:52 test.txt
ls -al
You probably have a file that begins with '.', or is in a '.*' directory,
and its name contains spaces.
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