Thanks for the report. > So the man page talks about a prompt about an existing destination > file, when no such prompt, per-se, will be generated, since you need > -i to generate such a prompt. When -i and --reply=no are on the same > line, you get the behavior of whichever option appears last (right > most).
Documentation improvements are welcome. FYI, `info mv' does include the following paragraph, at least in this release: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.4.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) but that may not be in fileutils-4.1.9. If a destination file exists but is normally unwritable, standard input is a terminal, and the `-f' or `--force' option is not given, `mv' prompts the user for whether to replace the file. (You might own the file, or have write permission on its directory.) If the response does not begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped. If you feel like improving the documentation, I'd welcome specific suggestions -- especially in the form of patches. Otherwise, I'll get to it, eventually. FYI, each man page is generated automatically from the corresponding tool's --help output, and as such isn't usually as complete as the texinfo documentation. Jim _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils