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

From: f0rhum <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:10:15 +0200

> ...is
mv 
> counter to The Unix Philosophy
?
>  Small is
> beautiful.  Make each program do one thing well.  Choose portability
> over efficiency.  Use shell scripts to increase leverage and
> portability.

Would mv be discarded to the benefit of cp + rm?
Ok, I know we can't because mv also does in place rename. But when it's time to real move who does use cp then rm?