-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Jones on 5/13/2009 7:33 PM:
Hi Dave, > --reply=yes (no? query?) > > seems to work and, while it is very useful, it isn't in the man page or cp > --help. > > Any reason? Because it was deprecated, and is no longer present in the latest stable release (7.4). http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#cp-and-mv-the-reply-option-is-deprecated In its place is something that does more what you thought you were getting with the undocumented version (whereas the undocumented version behaves differently depending on whether you are connected to a tty). From the 7.1 NEWS file: cp and mv accept a new option, --no-clobber (-n): silently refrain from overwriting any existing destination file - -- 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 iEYEARECAAYFAkoLfhgACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCntQCfQWqU9LCG+758RY8ohsDrAPQj xjoAnRe6aXT1XZqJ969wtVVCrxBFHgHX =Pd9A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
