mv imitates, but no longer uses, cp and rm to cross filesystems.

add -v to SYNOPSIS and STANDARDS;

add a -v verbose flag to cp, mv, and rm. useful for monitoring progress,
and present on several other systems. some ok, some less ok.
from Job Snijders

s/empy/empty/ typo fix

thx Scott McEachern

fix error in previous;

consistently specify that -f and -i override previous options in each
option's description. jmc points out this works better than deferring
such information to a post-options sentence.

a colon is not needed here;

1) Fix the pseudo-code explaining cross-filesystem moves.
2) Explain more precisely which moves are denied and what happens then,
and move this information from CAVEATS to DESCRIPTION.
3) Slightly ex

1) Fix the pseudo-code explaining cross-filesystem moves.
2) Explain more precisely which moves are denied and what happens then,
and move this information from CAVEATS to DESCRIPTION.
3) Slightly expand the example below CAVEATS to show another detail
that may cause unpleasant surprises.
Triggered by a patch from tedu@, feedback and ok jmc@, ok tedu@.

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add an EXIT STATUS section for /bin;

bump the posix reference in STANDARDS to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, with a few
updates to follow;

various doc fixes related to how mv handles symlinks
and file system traversal;

this is work from Ingo Schwarze, tweaked a little by myself,
and we borrowed half a sentence from the netbsd man page

various doc fixes related to how mv handles symlinks
and file system traversal;

this is work from Ingo Schwarze, tweaked a little by myself,
and we borrowed half a sentence from the netbsd man page too;

ok sobrado

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get the argument name right; from Jacek Masiulaniec

convert to new .Dd format;

- consistent STANDARDS blurb
- note which options are extensions to POSIX

discussed w/ deraadt otto millert

- use .Ex
- bump .St
- standard EXAMPLES
- macro cleanup

better explanation of second synopsis form; add a caveat also

started by freebsd pr #101330, from peter gildea
diff from otto and myself

Remove the advertising clause in the UCB license which Berkeley
rescinded 22 July 1999. Proofed by myself and Theo.

more .Li

change -pr to -PRp (ok mpech@, millert@)
Closes PR2258

Initial patch.
When you give command examples in a manual page prefix them with
$ command
or
# command

deraadt@ ok

Initial patch for a new mdoc issue.
Powered by @mantoya:
o) kill extra line in the end of file;
o) kill extra space in the end of line;
o) replace blank lines with .Pp;

millert@ ok

Document how to remove or rename a file that is a getopt(3) flag
to mv(1) or rm(1) by preceding it with --.
From ho@: Also give a sample of the ./-f way that is more portable
ok millert@, ho@

Change all option list specifications to ".Bl -tag -width Ds". Most man
pages just needed their -width parameter tweaked to "Ds", which provides
a nice width of 6 constant characters. For consistency

Change all option list specifications to ".Bl -tag -width Ds". Most man
pages just needed their -width parameter tweaked to "Ds", which provides
a nice width of 6 constant characters. For consistency more than anything.

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Add some rudimentary EXAMPLES sections and standardize the way we display
existing EXAMPLES sections.

Add HISTORY sections; from FreeBSD. Information originally obtained from
"A Quarter Centry of UNIX, Peter H. Salus, Page 41".