Shell Programming and Scripting

I was trying to move a file to a particular directory. In a hurry i forgot to give the dest directory, as below

Code:

 
mv prod.log

The file disappeared.
Any idea where it might have moved???

And I have tried moving files based on date from one directory to another as below.

Code:

 
-rw-rw-rw- 1 plttux edwprod 6130 Mar 8 01:07 XXX_20120308.tar.Z
-rw-rw-rw- 1 plttux edwprod 51 Mar 8 01:15 XXX_20120308_COMPLETE
$ mv *20120308*
$ mv *20120308* karthi
 
$ cd karthi
$ ls -ltr
total XXXXX
-rw-rw-rw- 1 plttux edwprod 20546 Mar 7 09:14 XXX_20120307.tar.Z
-rw-rw-rw- 1 plttux edwprod 51 Mar 7 09:16 XXX_20120307_COMPLETE
-rw-rw-rw- 1 plttux edwprod 6130 Mar 8 01:07 XXX_20120308_COMPLETE

It seems the content of the file "XXX_20120308.tar.Z" was copied in the name "XXX_20120308_COMPLETE", I assume this from the file size(6130).

Any idea why the file(XXX_20120308.tar.Z) is missing??


Thanks in adv....

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