Re: [LUG] Makefiles - mv with wildcard that may not match anything

[Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Fidell wrote:
> Something like:
> 
> clean:
>       mkdir -p .backups
>       -mv -f *~ .backups

Is there supposed to be a '-' in front of the mv line? If not, that 
doesn't work, because -f on mv doesn't work like it does on rm.

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