mv (1) man page missing info on behavior with existing target directories

Bug #1364082 reported by jhansonxi
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Bug Description

mv <source>/* <target> will not move <source>/<subdir> to <target>/<subdir> if the latter already exists. The --force option does not override this behavior. Ref: http://askubuntu.com/questions/269775/mv-directory-not-empty

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