"mv" broken?!?

[SamBones]

I hate it when simple things "break".

I'm trying to rename a directory and it's not cooperating.

$ mv apache apache.2.2.24
mv: apache is a directory
$ yes, I know
ksh: yes,:  not found
$ mv -f ./apache ./apache.2.2.24
mv: ./apache is a directory

This is Solaris 10, if that helps any.

$ uname -a
SunOS servername 5.10 Generic_147147-26 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220

I own the source directory and the permissions on the parent directory are 777.

$ ls -lad . apache
drwxrwxrwx 162 auser    agroup       260 Aug 12 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 myuser   mygroup       15 Apr 11 10:47 apache

Any ideas?

 

[ChrisHirst]

Have you tried with a -t/-T switch?

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[bluedragon2]

Try truss to see where it is failing

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[PHV]

Did you try /usr/xpg4/bin/mv ?

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[SamBones]

Yes, I did try [tt]/usr/xpg4/bin/mv[/tt] and got the same results.

But that's expected now that I discovered that I was just being stupid!

The directory I was working in had a quarter bazillion files and directories in it, so it was "a little cluttered". It turns out that the name I was trying to rename the directory to, was already in use by a file. You can't rename a directory to a file.

If the source was a file, it would have correctly overwritten the destination file. If the destination was a directory, it would have dropped the source directory into the destination directory. But, you can't rename a directory to a file. And it was trying to tell me that.

$ mkdir zzz
$ touch zzz.txt
$ mv zzz zzz.txt
mv: zzz is a directory

Thanks for the [tt]truss[/tt] suggestion bluedragon2. That's usually my first response to something like this. I was just being lazy I guess.

Thanks for all the replies!