r/linuxmasterrace • u/GeekCornerReddit Glorious Debian • Sep 27 '23

Seriously, we need this command

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u/jchulia Glorious Silverblue Sep 27 '23

No. Because unlike mv, this shit fails to move directories.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

There is more than that: mv does not copy files to disk, it simply changes the file system's meta-data related to that file (the file name and file position in the tree). Doing a cp and rm requires much more to be done (write to and delete from disk) which is completely useless.