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...les, last argument must be a directory Try `mv --help' for more information. There is obviously something about xargs that I do not understand. In my imagination I see this xargs construction expanding to this: mv /var/spool/mqueue/*messageid1 /var/spool/mqueue/offline mv /var/spool/mqueue/*messageid2 /var/spool/mqueue/offline . . . mv /var/spool/mqueue/*messageidn /var/spool/mqueue/offline so that the qf and df files for each message are moved into the subdirectory offline. But this is obviously incorrect. Can anyone here point out to me what my misunderstanding is and how to get this to...