mv warning set owner/group: Operation not permitted

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

Thanks for looking into this.
I am running into below situation in free BSD.

I have a file in /tmp/sample.txt with owner as 'xyz' and group as 'wheel'
I am moving it to my home dir/newsample.txt whihc has owner 'xyz', but group 'someother' with below command, getting warning, but it is moving file correctly.

mv /tmp/sample.txt /home/ramana/newsample.txt
mv: /home/ramana/newsample.txt: set owner/group (was: 4733/0): Operation not permitted

Please suggest.

Thanks,
Ramana

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Hi ramanaraoeee, it seams that the user xyz do not belongs to the group 0, so the file can not be moved with the same properties.

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if you want to ignore the error try using the force option with the mv command mv -f .....