mv fails silently
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- cli
Research direction
Start with src/mv.js, especially the try/catch at lines 103-115 linked in the issue. Reproduce the command shx mv dist/source/* dist/dest on Windows 10 with nested directories, then verify that an EPERM rename failure is reported instead of being swallowed.
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Description
- be on windows (10)
- run
shx mv dist/source/* dist/dest - apparently works
- actually, some dirs inside
dist/sourcewere not moved because of a randomnpm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, renamethat was swallowed by this try catch
expected: shx/shelljs should report the error
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- JavaScript
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