[PLUG] a question on "mv" command

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, VY wrote:

> Thanks again for all the replies.
>
> I have a further question on this.
>
> Is doing "mv *" considered "bad coding"?
>
> In general, no matter which language I do, I try to avoid any 
> side-effect.

It's certainly nothing I would do on purpose. :-) For instance, here 
are two views of the exact same directory:

[heinlein at hub mvtest]$ ls
A/  C/  E/  b/  d/

[heinlein at hub mvtest]$ ls
A/  b/  C/  d/  E/

The difference is in the LC_COLLATE locale variable ('C' in the first 
list, 'en_US.UTF-8' in the second). Obviously, "mv *" would not behave 
the same in those two cases. Everything would end up in 'd' in the 
first case, in 'E' in the second.

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Paul Heinlein
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