Re: mv: the --reply option is deprecated; use -i or -f instead

[Kamil Dudka]

Hello Dennis,

On Monday 30 March 2009 19:10:11 Dennis Heuer wrote:
> i just read the message as in the subject as i tried to archive some
> web-pages. the problem with dropping this option is that there is no
> alternative for --reply=no, if you think twice. this option is quite
> helpful to not overwrite files of different content but of same name,
> as is often with web-pages. this also can't be solved with -u. please
> think twice and at least offer an alternative like:
>
> -s  skip files if already existing

there is an alternative - new cp/mv option --no-clobber (-n). It was 
introduced in coreutils 7.1.


Kamil