title: What does an asterisk at the end of a mv command do
body: <p>So I am going along and moving a bunch of files</p>
  
  <pre><code>mv /source /dest &amp;
  mv /source/* /dest/dest/ &amp;
  ...
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then I get careless and</p>
  
  <pre><code>mv /source/filena* /dest/dest/ *
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>OMG! <code>^c^c^c^c</code>
  [No Response from terminal command]
  What is actually going on here?</p>
  
  <p>What happens when I put an <code>*</code> (asterisk) at the end of a command instead of an <code>&amp;</code> (ampersand)?</p>