[PLUG] a question on "mv" command

VY vyau5678 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 16:10:14 UTC 2017


Dear All

Yesterday, I was told of this usage of "mv" and I could not figure out why
it would work.
So I am sending out my question

Say I am in a directory with 3 sub-directories "a", "b" and "c".
I then type

    bash>   mv *

Directory "a" and "b" would move under "c".

I re-read the man page for "mv" and nothing says it can do this.  And it did
say there needs to be a "source and "destination".  From this command above,
there isn't that 2-parameter requirement.

Can anyone explain why this would work?  Or is this an undocumented
side-effect
for "mv"?

thanks

-v



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