diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 83f1085..6d46f8a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version = "0.8.7"
 edition = "2021"
 exclude = ["logo.png", "tests/test_data/**"]
 license = "MIT"
+authors = ["Vince Buffalo <vsbuffalo@gmail.com>"]
 keywords = ["science", "reproducibility", "bioinformatics", "data"]
 categories = ["command-line-utilities", "science"]
 repository = "https://github.com/vsbuffalo/scidataflow"
diff --git a/src/lib/project.rs b/src/lib/project.rs
index 177940d..19d9f42 100644
--- a/src/lib/project.rs
+++ b/src/lib/project.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ use crate::lib::utils::{load_file, pluralize, print_status};
 #[allow(unused_imports)]
 use crate::{print_info, print_warn};
 
+use super::utils::is_directory;
+
 const MANIFEST: &str = "data_manifest.yml";
 
 pub fn find_manifest(start_dir: Option<&PathBuf>, filename: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
@@ -466,10 +468,21 @@ impl Project {
     // has been successfully moved. So the updating is all done on the DataFile
     // directly, since lower interfaces cannot access the relative path.
     pub async fn mv(&mut self, source: &str, destination: &str) -> Result<()> {
-        let source_path = self.relative_path_string(Path::new(source))?;
-        if let Some(file) = self.data.files.remove(&source_path) {
+        let source_path = Path::new(source);
+        let source_path_str = self.relative_path_string(source_path)?;
+        if let Some(file) = self.data.files.remove(&source_path_str) {
+            let mut destination_path = PathBuf::from(destination);
+
+            if is_directory(&destination_path) {
+                // if destination is a directory, append the file name from 
+                // the source path to mimic unix mv
+                if let Some(file_name) = source_path.file_name() {
+                    destination_path = destination_path.join(file_name);
+                }
+            }
+
             // move the actual file
-            rename(source, destination).context("Error encountered when moving file.")?;
+            rename(source, destination_path).context("Error encountered when moving file.")?;
 
             // update the relative path
             let relative_destination = self.relative_path_string(Path::new(destination))?;
@@ -484,9 +497,9 @@ impl Project {
             self.save()
         } else {
             Err(anyhow!(
-                "Cannot move file '{}' with 'sdf mv' since it is not in the manifest.",
-                source
-            ))
+                    "Cannot move file '{}' with 'sdf mv' since it is not in the manifest.",
+                    source
+                    ))
         }
     }
 
@@ -516,17 +529,17 @@ impl Project {
             } else {
                 println!(
                     "File '{}' already existed in \
-                         the manifest, so it was not added.",
+                    the manifest, so it was not added.",
                     &filepath
-                );
+                    );
             }
             Ok(())
         } else {
             Err(anyhow!(
-                "The file at '{}' was not downloaded because it would overwrite a file.\n\
-                        Use 'sdf get <URL> --ovewrite' to overwrite it.",
-                url
-            ))
+                    "The file at '{}' was not downloaded because it would overwrite a file.\n\
+                    Use 'sdf get <URL> --ovewrite' to overwrite it.",
+                    url
+                    ))
         }
     }
 
@@ -536,7 +549,7 @@ impl Project {
         column: Option<u64>,
         header: bool,
         overwrite: bool,
-    ) -> Result<()> {
+        ) -> Result<()> {
         let extension = std::path::Path::new(filename)
             .extension()
             .and_then(std::ffi::OsStr::to_str);
@@ -596,15 +609,15 @@ impl Project {
         let num_skipped = skipped.len();
         println!(
             "{} URLs found in '{}.'\n\
-                 {} files were downloaded, {} added to manifest ({} were already registered).\n\
-                 {} files were skipped because they existed (and --overwrite was no specified).",
+            {} files were downloaded, {} added to manifest ({} were already registered).\n\
+            {} files were skipped because they existed (and --overwrite was no specified).",
             num_lines,
             filename,
             urls.len(),
             num_added,
             num_already_registered,
             num_skipped
-        );
+            );
         self.save()?;
         Ok(())
     }
diff --git a/src/lib/utils.rs b/src/lib/utils.rs
index 18b07d0..d062ee4 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils.rs
+++ b/src/lib/utils.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use log::{debug, info, trace};
 use md5::Context;
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::fs;
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::io::Read;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
@@ -36,6 +37,12 @@ pub fn ensure_directory(dir: &Path) -> Result<()> {
     }
 }
 
+pub fn is_directory(path: &Path) -> bool {
+    fs::metadata(path)
+        .map(|metadata| metadata.is_dir())
+        .unwrap_or(false)
+}
+
 pub fn ensure_exists(path: &Path) -> Result<()> {
     if path.exists() {
         Ok(())