HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)
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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.
SEE ALSO
cp(1), mkdir(1), mv(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
mvdir: SVID2, SVID3
HP-UX 11i Version 1: September 2005 − 1 − Hewlett-Packard Company Section 1M−−535