mv: can't rename: No such file or directory. But directory exists-CodePudding

I am trying to rename a directory in a bash script. I get the following error (file path has been substituted):

mv: can't rename 'some/path': No such file or directory

This is the code I am using:

if [ -d some/path ]; then
  mv some/path other/path
fi

It makes no sense to make since I'm checking the existence of the directory beforehand. I also did a find . -print to list all files and directories in the current working directory and the desired directory definitely exists. I know about case sensitivity and triple checked all paths. Any ideas why this is not working?

CodePudding user response：

The error message was misleading. Since the destination path did not exists the command failed with an error.

This change worked for me:

if [ -d some/path ]; then
    mkdir -p other/path
    mv some/path/* other/path
fi