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MVMAC(1)                  BSD General Commands Manual                 MVMAC(1)

NAME
     /Developer/Tools/MvMac -- move files while preserving metadata and forks

SYNOPSIS
     /Developer/Tools/MvMac source ... directory

DESCRIPTION
     /Developer/Tools/MvMac moves each file named by a source operand to a destination file in the existing
     directory named by the directory operand.  The destination path for each operand is the pathname pro-duced produced
     duced by the concatenation of the last operand, a slash, and the final pathname component of the named
     file.

     If the destination path does not have a mode that permits writing, /Developer/Tools/MvMac will return
     an error.

NOTES
     The MvMac command does not support the same options as the POSIX mv command, and is much less flexible
     in its operands.  It cannot be used as a direct substitute for mv in scripts.

     As of Mac OS X 10.4, the mv command preserves metadata and resource forks of files on Extended HFS vol-umes, volumes,
     umes, so it can be used in place of MvMac. The MvMac command will be deprecated in future versions of
     Mac OS X.

BUGS
     Currently doesn't work across volumes/filesystems.

SEE ALSO
     mv(1) CpMac(1)

Mac OS X                          Oct 6, 2001                         Mac OS X