obscure mv behavior?

[sarahwithanx at gmail.com (Sarah McGlinchey)]

Are you sure that error isn't with the 'cp' command?  Copy requires a
flag for directories

On 7/15/05, Ken Gosier <ken at kg293.net> wrote:
> Hi, I'm getting a little funny behavior out of mv. Most times when I want
> to move a directory, I can just do:
> 
> mv srcDir trgDir
> 
> and everything's fine. (That is, srcDir will no longer be there, and now I
> will have a directory trgDir/srcDir.) Sometimes, however, I get the error
> message:
> 
> mv: srcDir is a directory
> 
> I haven't been able to figure out the special circumstances under which I
> get this message. (It happens randomly, as far as I can tell.) btw, I'm
> running on Solaris 2.6. Also, if I explicitly say:
> 
> mv srcDir trgDir/srcDir
> 
> then it works correctly. Does anyone know what's going on here?
> 
> --
> Ken Gosier
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