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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 248342 15-Mar-2013 joel

Add a few examples.

Obtained from: OpenBSD


# 239951 31-Aug-2012 jhb

Add a -h flag similar to the -h flag for ln to force mv(1) to treat a
symbolic link to a directory for the target as a symbolic link instead of
a directory. This makes it possible to atomically update a symbolic
link using rename().

Reviewed by: gj
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 173248 01-Nov-2007 ru

Bump document date on behalf of previous revision.


# 169510 12-May-2007 pav

Replace a fairly opaque sentence with a much clearer wording from NetBSD.

PR: docs/101330 (inspired by)
Submitted by: Peter Gildea <peter@gildea.com>
Obtained from: NetBSD


# 140353 16-Jan-2005 ru

Add the new standard EXIT STATUS section where appropriate.
Sort standard sections in the (documented) preferred order.


# 139969 10-Jan-2005 imp

/*- or .\"- or #- to begin license clauses.


# 127958 06-Apr-2004 markm

Remove clause 3 from the UCB licenses.

OK'ed by: imp, core


# 102434 26-Aug-2002 keramida

Grammar fix.

PR: docs/42021
Submitted by: Jeff Ito <jeffi@rcn.com>
MFC after: 3 days


# 102230 21-Aug-2002 trhodes

s/filesystem/file system/ as discussed on -developers


# 101571 09-Aug-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: tidy up, bump document date on behalf of the -n option.


# 99678 09-Jul-2002 johan

Update usage for the addition of -n in rev 1.35 of mv.c.

Approved by: obrien, sheldonh (mentor).


# 96702 15-May-2002 trhodes

Consistancy check s/file system/filesystem/

Reviewed by: brian


# 92973 22-Mar-2002 obrien

Note that -n is non-standard.


# 92935 22-Mar-2002 obrien

Add the -n option, which automatically answers "no" to the overwrite question.


# 81687 15-Aug-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: utilize the new .Ex macro.


# 79754 15-Jul-2001 dd

Remove whitespace at EOL.


# 68935 20-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


# 50871 04-Sep-1999 mharo

mention that -v is non-standard

Reviewed-by: obrien


# 50544 29-Aug-1999 mharo

add verbose flag


# 50471 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 46684 08-May-1999 kris

Various spelling/formatting changes.

Submitted by: Philippe Charnier <charnier@xp11.frmug.org>


# 36049 15-May-1998 charnier

Correct use of .Nm. Add rcsid.


# 30727 26-Oct-1997 helbig

Synchronize usage() and man page.
Pointed out by bde.


# 22988 22-Feb-1997 peter

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 17891 29-Aug-1996 wosch

[HISTORY] command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX
Obtained from: A Quarter Century of UNIX, Peter H. Salus, page 41


# 14166 20-Feb-1996 wosch

option -f and -i are exclusive (Posix)
respond `Y' is equal to `y'
update usage string
prompt only if source exist


# 14154 18-Feb-1996 wosch

delete my last commit
Submitted by: pst, ache


# 14144 18-Feb-1996 wosch

option -f and -i are exclusive
all flag variables initialized with zero
respond `Y' is equal to `y'
update usage string
prompt only if source exist

ignore -i option if file descriptor stdin not refers to a valid
terminal type device


# 10068 15-Aug-1995 joerg

The command to `move' across file system boundaries is actually

cp -PRp source_file destination

Closes PR # bin/689: mv(1) manpage

Submitted by: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)


# 3044 24-Sep-1994 dg

Added $Id$


# 1557 26-May-1994 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1556,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 1556 26-May-1994 rgrimes

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