Fixed #47624 - pl.dir.MoveFile is broken on windows with alien.

Added test for move file.
Updated docs.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test-dir.lua b/tests/test-dir.lua
index b975f0b..ed60cd1 100644..100755
--- a/tests/test-dir.lua
+++ b/tests/test-dir.lua
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 -- This test file expects to be ran from 'run.lua' in the root Penlight directory.
 
 local dir = require( "pl.dir" )
+local file = require( "pl.file" )
+local path = require( "pl.path" )
 local asserteq = require( "pl.test" ).asserteq
 local pretty = require( "pl.pretty" )
 
@@ -10,3 +12,24 @@ local files = dir.getallfiles( "docs/", "*.txt" )
 
 asserteq( files, expected )
 
+-- Test move files -----------------------------------------
+--
+-- Create a dummy file
+local fileName = "poot.txt"
+file.write( fileName, string.rep( "poot ", 1000 ) )
+
+local newFileName = "move_test.txt"
+local err, msg = dir.movefile( fileName, newFileName )
+
+-- Make sure the move is successful
+asserteq( err, true )
+
+-- Check to make sure the original file is gone
+asserteq( path.exists( fileName ), false )
+
+-- Check to make sure the new file is there
+asserteq( path.exists( newFileName ), true )
+
+-- Clean up
+file.delete( newFileName )
+