move

Michael Havens bmike101 at cox.net
Sat Feb 10 18:17:46 MST 2007


The exact line I typed was:

	mv *JPG *jpg

The camera saved it's images as a <file>.JPG and capitalizations matter. The 
files with the lowercase jpg behave as they should (I can put them on the 
web). (nothing bad)

On Saturday 10 February 2007 6:10 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Michael Havens wrote:
> > Simple question: I want to rename a file. So I type:
> >
> > 	mv <file> <newfile>
> >
> > It responds with telling me newfile is not a directory. I inspected man
> > mv and it seems I need to add the T option. Is this correct? (I don't
> > want to screw up the other files in the diredctory)
>
> No you do not need the -T option.
>
> You may want to show us the real command with arguments you typed.
>
> Normally, you get the error about not being a directory when you have more
> than two arguments and the final argument (the target) is not a directory.
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed
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