1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)mv.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 |
36.\" $Id: mv.1,v 1.4 1996/02/18 18:44:56 wosch Exp $ |
37.\" 38.Dd May 31, 1993 39.Dt MV 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm mv 43.Nd move files 44.Sh SYNOPSIS --- 27 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 72component of the named file. 73.Pp 74The following options are available: 75.Bl -tag -width flag 76.It Fl f 77Do not prompt for confirmation before overwriting the destination 78path. 79(The |
80.Fl f |
81option overrides any previous 82.Fl i 83options.) |
84.It Fl i 85Causes 86.Nm mv 87to write a prompt to standard error before moving a file that would 88overwrite an existing file. |
89If the response from the standard input begins with the character 90.Sq Li y 91or 92.Sq Li Y , |
93the move is attempted. |
94(The 95.Fl i 96option overrides any previous 97.Fl f 98options.) |
99.El 100.Pp 101It is an error for either the 102.Ar source 103operand or the destination path to specify a directory unless both do. 104.Pp 105If the destination path does not have a mode which permits writing, 106.Nm mv --- 17 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 124\trm -rf source_file 125.Ed 126.Pp 127The 128.Nm mv 129utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 130.Sh SEE ALSO 131.Xr cp 1 , |
132.Xr rm 1 , |
133.Xr symlink 7 134.Sh STANDARDS 135The 136.Nm mv 137utility is expected to be 138.St -p1003.2 139compatible. |