14 Jul
2014
14 Jul
'14
12:16 a.m.
the cp command
seems different from all other versions, I'm not sure I
understand it so I used the mv command instead which worked as expected.
I'm intrigued; in what way is it different? 
14 Jul
14 Jul
12:32 a.m.
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Mark Longridge wrote:
That generally means that you don't have write permission on the file; I
assume that you checked for that?
-- Dave
I'm
intrigued; in what way is it different?
It seems that one must first cp a file to another file then do a mv to
actually put it into a different directory:
16 Jul
16 Jul
6:14 p.m.
On 7/13/14, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Mark Longridge wrote:
That generally means that you don't have write permission on the file; I
assume that you checked for that?
-- Dave
Hi Dave,
The version 1 manual actually mentions that:
A directory convention as used in mv should be adopted to cp.
ken, dmr
Also I was root when I used cp.
Mark
I'm
intrigued; in what way is it different?
It seems that one must first cp a file to another file then do a mv to
actually put it into a different directory:
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