Just saw this message. for --no-clobber, would --no-replace
suffice? the latter could also be shortened to --nr.
Regards
Leslie
Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada
On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 10:32:19 a.m. GMT-4, Pádraig Brady
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/03/2020 10:08, Tomas Zubiri wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm attaching a git patch for a small, easy improvement that would
> make cp easier and more pleasant to use and learn.
>
> cp overwrites files by default, this can be disabled by using the
> command line option --no-clobber, the proposal is merely to introduce
> an alias called --no-overwrites.
>
> Please let me know if somebody would be willing to merge this in
> principle so we can move address fine details like testing and the
> technical approach used.
>
> For convenience, I'm pasting the patch below as well:
While the new name may be clearer
scripts using it would not be compat with older cp implementations.
Hence the incompatability introduced would not be worth it.
thanks,
Pádraig
