-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/18/2007 6:20 AM: > >> Could you think about it, please? It would be great if at least a >> switch for it was added to mv (and other coreutils). > > What you appear to be wanting is a new option to mv, maybe spelled like > 'mv --merge'. But such a feature is not part of coreutils yet, because no > one has submitted a patch for it.
As a followup, I'm pretty sure rsync already does what you are looking for, so why bloat mv to do something that can be done with another tool? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHQD1I84KuGfSFAYARAtehAKCKcuXr5P3lcuvPQmT+iprw4LWmIQCfdCyl L3aMb0bqHSlTSZ2VcJ0xgnM= =TTAH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
