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Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option
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Tim Waugh |
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Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:51:34 +0100 |
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:16:19AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> [ Presuming you meant `mv -i'. ]
> Just use mv's -f option -- it's equivalent to --reply=yes.
>
> If you really did mean `rm -i', then I admit that rm's
> -f option isn't precisely the same as `turn off -i', but
> it's pretty close. People (especially superuser) who don't like
> the vendor-supplied aliases are always free to use `unalias'
> or to define a new alias that invokes rm with no options.
No, you're right, I got confused -- it was cp I was thinking of, where
-f has no effect on prompting.
Tim.
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- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, (continued)
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Michael Stone, 2005/06/24
- Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Tim Waugh, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option,
Tim Waugh <=
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, James Youngman, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/30
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Andreas Schwab, 2005/06/24