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A confusing problem about 'mv'

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From: Je Li <jerryli8664 <at> gmail.com>
To: 14564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14564: A confusing problem about 'mv'
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:52:36 +0800

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Today I just used a command as below:

$ mv win_* *

and got an unexpected result.

Of course I had some folders named with 'win_*' under current directory,
such as 'win_core'. After the command is done, I can not find these folders
anywhere in the file system.

It is a bit confusing, the destination does not seem valid apparently but
the command is executed without any warnings, and unluckily, my files are
gone.

My OS: Ubuntu 13.04

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