[Tfug] OBSD error

[Brian Murphy]

Quoting steveb7 at bblabs.net:
> I'm trying to copy the entire contents of one directory to another,
> but keep getting an error. The command I'm issueing is:
>
> mv -f /var/www/htdocs/jpgraph-1.13/src/*.*  /var/www/htdocs/jpgraph/
>
> and the error is:
> usage: mv [-fi] source target
>        mv [-fi] source ... directory
>
> I've reviewed the man page and as far as I can tell the syntax is
> correct. What am I missing here?

*.* is a DOSism that people often carry to unix as a bad habit.  Unless
if you specifically want to match a dot in a filename, just use 1
asterik.

What does ls -l /var/www/htdocs/jpgraph-1.13/src/*.* tell you?  Is the
results list empty?

Brian

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