[PLUG] Strange mv behavior
TomasK
tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 17:36:19 UTC 2021
This is not strange behavior - space is command line argument separator
in shells.
Escape (precede) the space with backslash \ OR quote the file name with
the space inside "file name" or 'file name'.
-T
On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 09:25 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I found where OBS studio puts the logs (~/.config/obs-studio/logs/)
> where
> they are listed with a space between the date and the time. When I
> try to mv
> the spacey one to one without spaces I cannot:
> $ mv 2021-02-09 06-56-46.txt 2021-02-09-06-56-46.txt
> mv: target '2021-02-09-06-56-46.txt' is not a directory
>
> Same thing happens with cp, if I try to move the destination file to
> ~/, and
> if I use the -T option. But, when I display the file in emacs and
> save it
> without spaces it does so.
>
> Has anyone seen this before? I haven't!
>
> Rich
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