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[Jon M. Hanson]

Michael Havens wrote:
> 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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    You can't rename something to a wildcard. It's the second argument
that's causing a problem.

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