I'm a beginner so be nice to me

[Russell Jones]

  On 03/09/10 09:27, Scott Haneda wrote:
> mv local/{,.off}
This expands to

mv local/ local/.off

I think you want
mv local{,.off}
i.e.
mv local local.off
or even
mv local{,.off}/
giving
mv local/ local.off/

echo's handy for checking how things like this turn out.

Russell