missing feature in cp

2002-04-24 Thread Michael Meß
Hi! I would like to copy files with cp and never overwrite existing files. I can use cp -i, but I don't want to say 'n' 1000 times (because there is no "No for all" option) or I just want to do that in a batch file, where I cannot give any answers to questions. Greetings, Michael _

new 'rm' option

2002-04-24 Thread Vera, Michael
Greetings, I was interested in adding a -0 or -z option to rm so that it removes files of size zero. If you write a shell one-liner to do this enough times, it makes sense to add it to the utility. x.zero_size = 1 :) Has anyone thought about this idea? Is it feasible or practical? Thank you, M

Re: missing feature in cp

2002-04-24 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:53:33PM +0200, Michael Me_ wrote: > I would like to copy files with cp and never overwrite existing files. > > I can use cp -i, but I don't want to say 'n' 1000 times (because there > is no "No for all" option) or I just want to do that in a batch file, > where I cannot

Sorting Issues

2002-04-24 Thread james
I am using RedHat 7.2 and recently upgraded my packages to use fileutils-4.1.4. The sort version is 2.0.14 and the ls version is 1.5i1. In both cases, they are no longer sorting via ASCII value, and are sorting in a case insensitive fashion. While there is an option on sort to sort case-insens