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Re: man mv punctuation deficiency
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: man mv punctuation deficiency |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:09:39 +0200 |
Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> I see four sentences written as two:
> $ man mv
> -f, --force
> do not prompt before overwriting equivalent to --reply=yes
>
> -i, --interactive
> prompt before overwrite equivalent to --reply=query
Thanks. I've parenthesized the (equivalent to ...) parts.
> also, it appears to the user, that one must be the default behaviour,
> so say so right there, else looks schizophrenic.
Neither is the default.
By default, you're prompted iff an existing destination is unwritable
and stdin is a tty.