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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:39:50 +0200

Bob Proulx <[email-masked]> writes:

> The mv command causes an atomic rename(2) to occur if on the same file
> system.  That is not possible when using cp + rm.  Therefore mv is
> required.

Also, you can rename a file that you cannot read.

Andreas.

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