MV'd a file, now it's disappeared...

slogged · #1 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008

I'm doing an assignment for a Unix course at school.

I attempted to rename one of the shell programming questions from home to Q1 by typing:

mv home Q1

It returned a message saying

mv: cannot access home

And now there's no home or Q1 in the directory. Please help!

inspirono · #2 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009

What happened to this? How did you resolve this? I am facing the same issue.

Please Help.

How much time a big file takes to rename?

MINICooperS · #3 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009

At what level was "home" originally? (the pathname)

inspirono · #4 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009

But What would make a file disappear?

MINICooperS · #5 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009

Hard to say without knowing your syntax. Are you running CDE by chance? Check your trash? And how full is your disk?

inspirono · #6 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009

No CDE.

It was a plain command

mv oldfile newfile:

MINICooperS · #7 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009

Would still like to know how full your HDD is.
I'm running HP-UX 11.0 using the CDE (Common Desktop Environment) on an HP b2600 Workstation.
What are you running and on what?

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