Re: [cp v5.97] --noreply erroneously depreciated

[Brian Dessent]

Chris Velevitch wrote:

> I thought rsync is meant for copying files between machines? In what

There's no requirement that rsync can only be used between two different
machines.

> It did have it,
> until it got depreciated.

No, it didn't have such an option.  Go read those old threads. 
--reply=no would *only* have worked in those situations where mv would
have prompted the user.  That means when -i was also specified and when
stdout was a terminal.  But for example if -i wasn't given or mv was
used in a batch/cron situation with stdout redirected it would *not*
have prompted, and thus the file would be overwritten despite the user
giving --reply=no.  This was the source of much confusion and the reason
why it the option was deprecated, because it did work in the manner that
people expected.

Brian