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Old 02-20-2003
moving a file?

i'm trying to move a file from one diectory to another and rename it at the same time. but its giving me an error .
" mv: cannot unlink /dir2/file5 : No such file or directory"

here is the command I'm using.

mv /dir1/file1 /dir2/file5

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Old 02-20-2003
I can't reproduce that error message. What do the following commands give you:
ls -ld / /dir2 /dir2/file5
df -g /dir2
df -g /dir2/file5
 
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