mvdir.1m (2010 09)

mvdir(1M) mvdir(1M)

NAME

mvdir - move a directory

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/mvdir

dir newdir

DESCRIPTION

mvdir moves one directory tree into another existing directory (within the same ﬁle system), or renames

a directory without moving it.

dir must be an existing directory.

If newdir does not exist but the directory that would contain it does, dir is moved and/or renamed to

newdir . Otherwise, newdir must be an existing directory not already containing an entry with the same

name as the last pathname component of dir . In this case, dir is moved and becomes a subdirectory of

newdir . The last pathname component of dir is used as the name for the moved directory.

mvdir refuses to move dir if the path speciﬁed by newdir would be a descendent directory of the path

speciﬁed by dir . Such cases are not allowed because cyclic sub-trees would be created as in the case, for

example, of

mvdir x/y x/y/z/t which is prohibited.

mvdir does not allow directory . to be moved.

Only users who have appropriate privileges can use

mvdir.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

International Code Set Support

Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

AUTHOR

mvdir was developed by OSF and HP.