1 /* mv -- move or rename files
2 Copyright (C) 1986-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Written by Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering */
22 #include <sys/types.h>
23 #include <selinux/label.h>
28 #include "backupfile.h"
31 #include "filenamecat.h"
33 #include "renameatu.h"
34 #include "root-dev-ino.h"
35 #include "targetdir.h"
38 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
39 #define PROGRAM_NAME "mv"
42 proper_name ("Mike Parker"), \
43 proper_name ("David MacKenzie"), \
44 proper_name ("Jim Meyering")
46 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
47 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
50 DEBUG_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1,
53 STRIP_TRAILING_SLASHES_OPTION
56 static char const *const update_type_string
[] =
58 "all", "none", "none-fail", "older", nullptr
60 static enum Update_type
const update_type
[] =
62 UPDATE_ALL
, UPDATE_NONE
, UPDATE_NONE_FAIL
, UPDATE_OLDER
,
64 ARGMATCH_VERIFY (update_type_string
, update_type
);
66 static struct option
const long_options
[] =
68 {"backup", optional_argument
, nullptr, 'b'},
69 {"context", no_argument
, nullptr, 'Z'},
70 {"debug", no_argument
, nullptr, DEBUG_OPTION
},
71 {"exchange", no_argument
, nullptr, EXCHANGE_OPTION
},
72 {"force", no_argument
, nullptr, 'f'},
73 {"interactive", no_argument
, nullptr, 'i'},
74 {"no-clobber", no_argument
, nullptr, 'n'}, /* Deprecated. */
75 {"no-copy", no_argument
, nullptr, NO_COPY_OPTION
},
76 {"no-target-directory", no_argument
, nullptr, 'T'},
77 {"strip-trailing-slashes", no_argument
, nullptr,
78 STRIP_TRAILING_SLASHES_OPTION
},
79 {"suffix", required_argument
, nullptr, 'S'},
80 {"target-directory", required_argument
, nullptr, 't'},
81 {"update", optional_argument
, nullptr, 'u'},
82 {"verbose", no_argument
, nullptr, 'v'},
83 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
84 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
85 {nullptr, 0, nullptr, 0}
89 rm_option_init (struct rm_options
*x
)
91 x
->ignore_missing_files
= false;
92 x
->remove_empty_directories
= true;
94 x
->one_file_system
= false;
96 /* Should we prompt for removal, too? No. Prompting for the 'move'
97 part is enough. It implies removal. */
98 x
->interactive
= RMI_NEVER
;
103 /* Since this program may well have to process additional command
104 line arguments after any call to 'rm', that function must preserve
105 the initial working directory, in case one of those is a
106 '.'-relative name. */
107 x
->require_restore_cwd
= true;
110 static struct dev_ino dev_ino_buf
;
111 x
->root_dev_ino
= get_root_dev_ino (&dev_ino_buf
);
112 if (x
->root_dev_ino
== nullptr)
113 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, _("failed to get attributes of %s"),
117 x
->preserve_all_root
= false;
121 cp_option_init (struct cp_options
*x
)
123 bool selinux_enabled
= (0 < is_selinux_enabled ());
125 cp_options_default (x
);
126 x
->copy_as_regular
= false; /* FIXME: maybe make this an option */
127 x
->reflink_mode
= REFLINK_AUTO
;
128 x
->dereference
= DEREF_NEVER
;
129 x
->unlink_dest_before_opening
= false;
130 x
->unlink_dest_after_failed_open
= false;
131 x
->hard_link
= false;
132 x
->interactive
= I_UNSPECIFIED
;
134 x
->install_mode
= false;
135 x
->one_file_system
= false;
136 x
->preserve_ownership
= true;
137 x
->preserve_links
= true;
138 x
->preserve_mode
= true;
139 x
->preserve_timestamps
= true;
140 x
->explicit_no_preserve_mode
= false;
141 x
->preserve_security_context
= selinux_enabled
;
142 x
->set_security_context
= nullptr;
143 x
->reduce_diagnostics
= false;
144 x
->data_copy_required
= true;
145 x
->require_preserve
= false; /* FIXME: maybe make this an option */
146 x
->require_preserve_context
= false;
147 x
->preserve_xattr
= true;
148 x
->require_preserve_xattr
= false;
150 x
->sparse_mode
= SPARSE_AUTO
; /* FIXME: maybe make this an option */
151 x
->symbolic_link
= false;
154 x
->stdin_tty
= isatty (STDIN_FILENO
);
156 x
->open_dangling_dest_symlink
= false;
159 x
->dest_info
= nullptr;
160 x
->src_info
= nullptr;
163 /* Move SOURCE onto DEST aka DEST_DIRFD+DEST_RELNAME.
164 Handle cross-file-system moves.
165 If SOURCE is a directory, DEST must not exist.
166 Return true if successful. */
169 do_move (char const *source
, char const *dest
,
170 int dest_dirfd
, char const *dest_relname
, const struct cp_options
*x
)
173 bool rename_succeeded
;
174 bool ok
= copy (source
, dest
, dest_dirfd
, dest_relname
, 0, x
,
175 ©_into_self
, &rename_succeeded
);
179 char const *dir_to_remove
;
182 /* In general, when copy returns with copy_into_self set, SOURCE is
183 the same as, or a parent of DEST. In this case we know it's a
184 parent. It doesn't make sense to move a directory into itself, and
185 besides in some situations doing so would give highly unintuitive
186 results. Run this 'mkdir b; touch a c; mv * b' in an empty
187 directory. Here's the result of running echo $(find b -print):
188 b b/a b/b b/b/a b/c. Notice that only file 'a' was copied
189 into b/b. Handle this by giving a diagnostic, removing the
190 copied-into-self directory, DEST ('b/b' in the example),
193 dir_to_remove
= nullptr;
196 else if (rename_succeeded
)
198 /* No need to remove anything. SOURCE was successfully
199 renamed to DEST. Or the user declined to rename a file. */
200 dir_to_remove
= nullptr;
204 /* This may mean SOURCE and DEST referred to different devices.
205 It may also conceivably mean that even though they referred
206 to the same device, rename wasn't implemented for that device.
208 E.g., (from Joel N. Weber),
209 [...] there might someday be cases where you can't rename
210 but you can copy where the device name is the same, especially
211 on Hurd. Consider an ftpfs with a primitive ftp server that
212 supports uploading, downloading and deleting, but not renaming.
214 Also, note that comparing device numbers is not a reliable
215 check for 'can-rename'. Some systems can be set up so that
216 files from many different physical devices all have the same
217 st_dev field. This is a feature of some NFS mounting
220 We reach this point if SOURCE has been successfully copied
221 to DEST. Now we have to remove SOURCE.
223 This function used to resort to copying only when rename
224 failed and set errno to EXDEV. */
226 dir_to_remove
= source
;
229 if (dir_to_remove
!= nullptr)
231 struct rm_options rm_options
;
232 enum RM_status status
;
235 rm_option_init (&rm_options
);
236 rm_options
.verbose
= x
->verbose
;
237 dir
[0] = dir_to_remove
;
240 status
= rm ((void *) dir
, &rm_options
);
241 affirm (VALID_STATUS (status
));
242 if (status
== RM_ERROR
)
253 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
258 Usage: %s [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST\n\
259 or: %s [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY\n\
260 or: %s [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...\n\
262 program_name
, program_name
, program_name
);
264 Rename SOURCE to DEST, or move SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.\n\
267 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
270 --backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file\
272 -b like --backup but does not accept an argument\n\
275 --debug explain how a file is copied. Implies -v\n\
278 --exchange exchange source and destination\n\
281 -f, --force do not prompt before overwriting\n\
282 -i, --interactive prompt before overwrite\n\
283 -n, --no-clobber do not overwrite an existing file\n\
284 If you specify more than one of -i, -f, -n, only the final one takes effect.\n\
287 --no-copy do not copy if renaming fails\n\
288 --strip-trailing-slashes remove any trailing slashes from each SOURCE\n\
290 -S, --suffix=SUFFIX override the usual backup suffix\n\
293 -t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY move all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY\n\
294 -T, --no-target-directory treat DEST as a normal file\n\
297 --update[=UPDATE] control which existing files are updated;\n\
298 UPDATE={all,none,none-fail,older(default)}.\n\
299 -u equivalent to --update[=older]. See below\n\
302 -v, --verbose explain what is being done\n\
303 -Z, --context set SELinux security context of destination\n\
304 file to default type\n\
306 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
307 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
308 emit_update_parameters_note ();
309 emit_backup_suffix_note ();
310 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME
);
316 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
320 bool make_backups
= false;
321 char const *backup_suffix
= nullptr;
322 char *version_control_string
= nullptr;
324 bool remove_trailing_slashes
= false;
325 char const *target_directory
= nullptr;
326 bool no_target_directory
= false;
329 bool selinux_enabled
= (0 < is_selinux_enabled ());
330 bool no_clobber
= false;
332 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
333 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
334 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
335 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
336 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
338 atexit (close_stdin
);
342 /* Try to disable the ability to unlink a directory. */
343 priv_set_remove_linkdir ();
345 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "bfint:uvS:TZ", long_options
, nullptr))
353 version_control_string
= optarg
;
356 x
.interactive
= I_ALWAYS_YES
;
359 x
.interactive
= I_ASK_USER
;
362 x
.interactive
= I_ALWAYS_SKIP
;
367 x
.debug
= x
.verbose
= true;
369 case EXCHANGE_OPTION
:
375 case STRIP_TRAILING_SLASHES_OPTION
:
376 remove_trailing_slashes
= true;
379 if (target_directory
)
380 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("multiple target directories specified"));
381 target_directory
= optarg
;
384 no_target_directory
= true;
389 enum Update_type update_opt
= UPDATE_OLDER
;
391 update_opt
= XARGMATCH ("--update", optarg
,
392 update_type_string
, update_type
);
393 if (update_opt
== UPDATE_ALL
)
395 /* Default mv operation. */
397 x
.interactive
= I_UNSPECIFIED
;
399 else if (update_opt
== UPDATE_NONE
)
402 x
.interactive
= I_ALWAYS_SKIP
;
404 else if (update_opt
== UPDATE_NONE_FAIL
)
407 x
.interactive
= I_ALWAYS_NO
;
409 else if (update_opt
== UPDATE_OLDER
)
412 x
.interactive
= I_UNSPECIFIED
;
421 backup_suffix
= optarg
;
424 /* As a performance enhancement, don't even bother trying
425 to "restorecon" when not on an selinux-enabled kernel. */
428 x
.preserve_security_context
= false;
429 x
.set_security_context
= selabel_open (SELABEL_CTX_FILE
,
431 if (! x
.set_security_context
)
432 error (0, errno
, _("warning: ignoring --context"));
435 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
436 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
438 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
442 n_files
= argc
- optind
;
443 file
= argv
+ optind
;
445 if (n_files
<= !target_directory
)
448 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
450 error (0, 0, _("missing destination file operand after %s"),
452 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
457 int target_dirfd
= AT_FDCWD
;
458 if (no_target_directory
)
460 if (target_directory
)
461 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0,
462 _("cannot combine --target-directory (-t) "
463 "and --no-target-directory (-T)"));
466 error (0, 0, _("extra operand %s"), quoteaf (file
[2]));
467 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
470 else if (target_directory
)
472 target_dirfd
= target_directory_operand (target_directory
, &sb
);
473 if (! target_dirfd_valid (target_dirfd
))
474 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, _("target directory %s"),
475 quoteaf (target_directory
));
479 char const *lastfile
= file
[n_files
- 1];
480 if (n_files
== 2 && !x
.exchange
)
481 x
.rename_errno
= (renameatu (AT_FDCWD
, file
[0], AT_FDCWD
, lastfile
,
484 if (x
.rename_errno
!= 0)
486 int fd
= target_directory_operand (lastfile
, &sb
);
487 if (target_dirfd_valid (fd
))
491 target_directory
= lastfile
;
496 /* The last operand LASTFILE cannot be opened as a directory.
497 If there are more than two operands, report an error.
499 Also, report an error if LASTFILE is known to be a directory
500 even though it could not be opened, which can happen if
501 opening failed with EACCES on a platform lacking O_PATH.
502 In this case use stat to test whether LASTFILE is a
503 directory, in case opening a non-directory with (O_SEARCH
504 | O_DIRECTORY) failed with EACCES not ENOTDIR. */
507 || (O_PATHSEARCH
== O_SEARCH
&& err
== EACCES
508 && (sb
.st_mode
!= 0 || stat (lastfile
, &sb
) == 0)
509 && S_ISDIR (sb
.st_mode
)))
510 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, err
, _("target %s"), quoteaf (lastfile
));
515 /* Handle the ambiguity in the semantics of mv induced by the
516 varying semantics of the rename function. POSIX-compatible
517 systems (e.g., GNU/Linux) have a rename function that honors a
518 trailing slash in the source, while others (Solaris 9, FreeBSD
519 7.2) have a rename function that ignores it. */
520 if (remove_trailing_slashes
)
521 for (int i
= 0; i
< n_files
; i
++)
522 strip_trailing_slashes (file
[i
]);
526 || x
.interactive
== I_ALWAYS_SKIP
527 || x
.interactive
== I_ALWAYS_NO
))
530 _("cannot combine --backup with "
531 "--exchange, -n, or --update=none-fail"));
532 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
535 x
.backup_type
= (make_backups
536 ? xget_version (_("backup type"),
537 version_control_string
)
539 set_simple_backup_suffix (backup_suffix
);
543 if (target_directory
)
545 /* Initialize the hash table only if we'll need it.
546 The problem it is used to detect can arise only if there are
547 two or more files to move. */
552 for (int i
= 0; i
< n_files
; ++i
)
554 x
.last_file
= i
+ 1 == n_files
;
555 char const *source
= file
[i
];
556 char const *source_basename
= last_component (source
);
558 char *dest
= file_name_concat (target_directory
, source_basename
,
560 strip_trailing_slashes (dest_relname
);
561 ok
&= do_move (source
, dest
, target_dirfd
, dest_relname
, &x
);
568 ok
= do_move (file
[0], file
[1], AT_FDCWD
, file
[1], &x
);
571 main_exit (ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
);