[I lost the original posters message, so I'm replying in this one]
This bug report isn't in a form where we can help you out much.
It might be a bit shallow yes, but it is in a state where we can help
I belive.
Alexander Donald Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
01/08/2004 04:24 AM
The interactive command for copy and move are not working (cp
-i file) and (mv -i file) but they are listed as legal commands
until the help menu. I am a student at Columbia University and
connecting to newcunix.cc.columbia.edu Is this command just not
allowed?? Thanks for your time.
As Steven said, your bug report is a bit low on information, but I'm
guessing that you did the following:
$ touch foo
$ mv -i foo bar
That is, renaming `foo' to a completely new name. If you check the
info page for mv (and cp), it says that `-i' will only prompt if you
_overwrite_ a file.
>From (coreutils) cp invocation:
`-i'
`--interactive'
Prompt whether to overwrite existing regular destination files.
And (coreutils) mv invocation:
`-i'
`--interactive'
Prompt whether to overwrite each existing destination file,
regardless of its permissions. If the response does not begin
with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped.
Jim, what do you think about converting all option text into macros so
that they will stay in sync and ease a bit of a maintaining nightmare?
So instead of duplicating all the text each time one wants to show the
`--interactive' option, you would just have:
@macro opt_interactive
And then defining it as follows:
@macro opt_interactive
@item -i
@itemx --interactive
@opindex -i
@opindex --interactive
Prompt whether to overwrite each existing destination file,
regardless of its permissions. If the response does not begin
with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped.
@end macro
(hopefully that made sense :-)
Cheers.
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