My understanding from reading mv --help is that mv -i --reply=no
should not overwrite the DEST file if it already exists.  Am I
misinterpreting the documentation, or is this a software bug?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ touch foo bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ mv -i --reply=no foo bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls
bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ mv --version
mv (coreutils) 5.0.91
Written by Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Ryan


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