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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

but how would you mv something without moving all it contains?

is there a non -r use case? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I see it as: mv is just renaming a file, in this case a directory file, with a different full name (path)