16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
12:04 a.m.
On 2020-09-16 04:09, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Well, never trusting the "mv" command, I decided to do some experimenting and did:
You know, if you're not comfortable with knowing how a command works or what results it will produce it is best not to work with "live/real" data.
In this case, you could have created a directory structure in the same manner as your real data and used mv on it to see the results.
You could even go so far as to use a VM for testing commands and other things you're concerned may not do as you intend.
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