Subject: bug#5926: feature request: mv -p to create missing target dir

From: "Alan Curry" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:57:17 -0500 (GMT+5)

Bob Proulx writes:
> 
> As a side comment I don't see the point of:
> 
> >     $(which mv) "$@"
> 

I can guess the point:

bash$ alias mv='mv -i'
bash$ touch a b
bash$ mv a b
mv: overwrite `b'? ^C
bash$ $(which mv) a b
bash$ ls -l a b
ls: cannot access a: No such file or directory
-rw------- 1 pacman users 0 Apr 24 17:55 b

Silly aliases.

-- 
Alan Curry