Re: Feature request: Rename files with a decent name if two files have the same name.

[Gregory Heytings]

> I'm using the shell every day but there is one thing that terribly 
> annoys me.
>
> When moving files, if two files have the same name, you can overwrite it 
> with the default behavior, not move the file with -n or choose between 
> the two with -i, from my understanding the is no way to tell mv to 
> rename the file to avoid the overwrite with a decent name like img_2.jpg 
> for img.jpg
>
> Can you add this feature to mv?

You can use the --backup option.  For example,

mv --force --backup=t foo bar

will make a backup of bar in bar.~1~ before overwriting bar with foo.