-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Pádraig Brady on 12/22/2008 2:54 AM: >> + -f, --force do not prompt before overwriting (The -f >> option\n\ >> + overrides any previous -i or -n >> options.)\n\ >> + -i, --interactive prompt before overwrite (The -i option\n\ >> + overrides any previous -f or -n >> options.)\n\ >> + -n, --no-replace do not overwrite an existing file (The -n\n\ >> + option overrides any previous -f or -i\n\ >> + options.)\n\ > > This is actually now quite confusing/inaccurate. I think these 3 options > should be mutually exclusive. I.E. if more than 1 specified an > error should be printed.
POSIX requires support for simultaneous -f and -i, in either order, so we can't error out there. But since -n is an addition, we can error out depending on -f or -i, if that makes more sense than overriding. Again, since we are modeling after the fact that FreeBSD provides it, what is the behavior on that platform when you mix-n-match -fin? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklPjNQACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBw6ACgolgN28dHEi7tT7EmqSBBGZvh jCgAoJ68rQbAMM2QIFTEDL0jgIYKRWCj =WhOf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
