-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dennis Heuer on 3/30/2009 11:10 AM: > hello, > > i just read the message as in the subject as i tried to archive some > web-pages. the problem with dropping this option is that there is no > alternative for --reply=no, if you think twice. this option is quite > helpful to not overwrite files of different content but of same name, > as is often with web-pages. this also can't be solved with -u. please > think twice and at least offer an alternative like:
Consider upgrading: coreutils 7.1 added 'mv --no-clober' for exactly this reason. - -- 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 iEYEARECAAYFAknQ/zoACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDh3ACgq9EfYykgjNoyV7YmxCcl8iRf WCgAnR+QovTtIRk2C0Exm0pIqm7xbbjI =iH1q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
