On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/04/2012 05:04 PM, Paweł Lampe wrote: >> >> Hi there ! >> >> Few minutes ago, my mate asked me 'is there any way to swap two >> files ?'. I have realized, that the mv has option -S but it's all about >> suffix. I think, there should be also -s for swapping. It should work >> like: >> mv -s a b >> Effect should be like: >> a -> tmp >> b -> a >> tmp -> b >> >> Think about it > > > A fairly useful feature, but something as noted here > that might be more suited to a separate script, > that could be maintained within coreutils under the > recently mentioned contrib/ directory > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00014.html > > thanks, > Pádraig. >
I read this page: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00014.html So I would really like to create that program. Is it still even needed? Att, Raphael SC <[email protected]>
