Re: mv -i --reply=no ... acts like --reply=yes

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:41:33AM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:

> I think that's what Tim expected.  But b/foo was replaced with a/foo,
> in spite of --reply=no.  The same thing happens for me with 5.2.1.

Well, I didn't expect --reply=no to override the -i; I had thought
(without reading the documentation) that --reply applied to the
questions that -i prompted.

Now I see that for this specific case what I was doing was equivalent
to 'mv a/foo b/foo' since b/foo is writable.

It would have been nice if '-i --reply=no' did what '-u' does -- but
now that I have read the documentation I can see why that isn't so.

So the next question I have is: why does 'mv -i -u' prompt me? :-)

Tim.
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