Re: man mv punctuation deficiency

2003-10-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
also, it appears to the user, that one must be the default behaviour, so say so right there, else looks schizophrenic. Jim Neither is the default. Jim By default, you're prompted iff an existing destination is unwritable Jim and stdin is a tty. OK, Yes the info page seems to mention this, but

Re: man mv punctuation deficiency

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see four sentences written as two: $ man mv -f, --force do not prompt before overwriting equivalent to --reply=yes -i, --interactive prompt before overwrite equivalent to --reply=query Thanks. I've