alessandro salvatori wrote:
except it is not guaranteed to be on a machine
Neither is coreutils.
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what are the cases when a prompt would not have been shown? AFAIK, those
cases can be there only because of further options provided by the user, so
it's his fault...
my scripts just does:
cp -d --preserve=mode,timestamps,links --reply=no
and i can't be sure everybody have rsync installed.
My case is the exact opposite of what you are talking about.
Irrespectively of the original files, i want to keep the existing files at
the destination, even if older.
and cp --reply=no, without any other fancy thing that would have avoided a
prompt, was the sweetest thing to do. it was... :(
Yeah, that's exactly the feature I've been wanting (only with mv instead of
cp). I actually joined this list to figure out why it had been deprecated.
One day, when I have time to fully understand the source code, I'll sit down
and write a --no-overwrite patch for mv and cp that silently
alessandro salvatori wrote:
My case is the exact opposite of what you are talking about.
Irrespectively of the original files, i want to keep the existing files at
the destination, even if older.
In that case Eric's suggestion of rsync --ignore-existing is perfect
then.
Bob
except it is not guaranteed to be on a machine
I will go for an horrible:
yes n | cp -i src/ dst/ 21 | grep -v ' overwrite '
Thanks!
-A
On 8/26/07, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
alessandro salvatori wrote:
My case is the exact opposite of what you are talking about.
Irrespectively
Mark Rose wrote:
Yeah, that's exactly the feature I've been wanting (only with mv instead of
cp). I actually joined this list to figure out why it had been deprecated.
It was removed because it did not actually prevent overwriting files.
Try this with the old 'mv --reply=no'.
$ touch bar
Hello,
some scripts I wrote time ago are now displaying a lot of lines like this
one:
cp: the --reply option is deprecated; use -i or -f instead
which is fairly annoying...
On top of that the only way for me to get the desired behaviour of skipping
existing files seems to be:
yes | tr 'y'
alessandro salvatori wrote:
On top of that the only way for me to get the desired behaviour of skipping
existing files seems to be:
See the previous thread from earlier this month:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-08/msg0.html
Brian
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According to alessandro salvatori on 8/25/2007 9:58 PM:
Hello,
some scripts I wrote time ago are now displaying a lot of lines like this
one:
cp: the --reply option is deprecated; use -i or -f instead
which is fairly annoying...
We
Eric Blake wrote:
Why not use rsync --ignore-existing instead?
Agreed that rsync is definitely the right tool for this task.
Most of the time when people are trying to avoid overwriting existing
files it is because they are trying to avoid spending the computer
time to do the copy again and not
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