Crazy directory thing

[Andy Pieters]

Hi all

I have been noticing some strange behaviour and was hoping someone here is 
more experienced to know what is going on.

Directory structure

+home
+--ogg
| +-- incomming
\--incomming

So I do 

cd ~/incomming
mv *.mp3 ../ogg/incomming
Result: mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
cp *.mp3 ../ogg/incomming
Result: cp: `../ogg/incomming': specified destination directory does not exist
file ../ogg/incomming
../ogg/incomming: ERROR: cannot open `../ogg/incomming' (No such file or 
directory)

WTF?

cd ../ogg/incomming
file .
.: directory
mv ../../incomming/*.mp3 .
Result: ok

Weird isn't it?

Andy

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