On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:49:57 EDT
> "Lee D. Rothstein" said:
>
> >>Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'?
> >>My Debian man page has it mentioned and
> >>it seems to work for me.
> >
> >==
> >
> >No stinkin '--reply' option for:
> >================================
> >
> >cp, on Redhat:
> >--------------
> >$ cp --version
> >cp (fileutils) 4.1
> >
> >cp, on Cygwin:
> >--------------
> >$ cp --version
> >cp (fileutils) 4.1
>
>
> Hmmmm:
>
> $ cp --version
> cp (fileutils) 4.1.9
> Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
>
>
> Maybe this option is new in 4.1.9 and those systems haven't upgraded yet?
Could be ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cp --version
cp (fileutils) 4.1.11
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
>From "man cp" on this (Mandrake 9.0) box:
--reply={yes,no,query}
specify how to handle the prompt about an existing
destination file
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