Hello Dennis, On Monday 30 March 2009 19:10:11 Dennis Heuer wrote: > i just read the message as in the subject as i tried to archive some > web-pages. the problem with dropping this option is that there is no > alternative for --reply=no, if you think twice. this option is quite > helpful to not overwrite files of different content but of same name, > as is often with web-pages. this also can't be solved with -u. please > think twice and at least offer an alternative like: > > -s skip files if already existing
there is an alternative - new cp/mv option --no-clobber (-n). It was introduced in coreutils 7.1. Kamil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
