Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fellas, should we feel bad about > $ mv yy/c zz/c /somedir Yes. > yes, the usual alias mv=mv -i will protect the general user, and I > suppose for scripts the user is supposed to know better... > > so i suppose no child-guard protection cap is needed, however maybe > mention this hazard on the info page. > > this probably would occur with typings like > $ mv */*c* /somedir Thanks for reporting that. I think I have found a way to make GNU mv fail in that case -- with minimal performance impact. cp should at least warn, too, in case someone does `cp some... files... dir' and then upon successful completion runs `rm -rf some... files...'. BTW, if you use mv's --backup=numbered option when running that command, you wouldn't lose any data. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
