Re: cp/mv: add -n option to not overwrite target (Ubuntu bug #229182)

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> According to Kamil Dudka on 10/15/2008 3:50 AM:
>> Hello,
>>
>> at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/229182 is 
>> proposed
>> cp/mv enhancement: -n option to not overwrite target files. This option is
>> available on FreeBSD cp/mv as complement to options -i, -f:
>> http://www.ipnom.com/FreeBSD-Man-Pages/cp.1.html
>> http://www.ipnom.com/FreeBSD-Man-Pages/mv.1.html
>>
>> Do you think it would be useful to implement such enhancement in GNU
>> coreutils?
>
> The mere fact that another implementation provides this extension to Posix
> is a relatively strong argument for adding it to coreutils.  What long
> option name would you give it?  Care to write a patch for review?

The timing is good, too, now that --reply=... is nearly gone.
BTW, I've just noticed that while I removed --reply= documentation
from --help, I didn't remove it from coreutils.texi.
This completes the job:

>From 555c219d9eff5b0b15be7c479a8efc81f59b0ffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:07:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: cp, mv: remove mention of deprecated --reply= option

* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation): Don't mention it.
---
 doc/coreutils.texi |   12 ------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index b7e044d..183e070 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7404,13 +7404,6 @@ cp invocation
 copies the file @file{a/b/c} to @file{existing_dir/a/b/c}, creating
 any missing intermediate directories.

address@hidden The --reply option was deprecated in 2005, and is scheduled to
address@hidden be removed in 2008.  It is already missing from the --help 
output.
address@hidden @address@hidden@var{how}}
address@hidden --reply
address@hidden interactivity
-This option is deprecated.
-
 @item -R
 @itemx -r
 @itemx --recursive
@@ -8095,11 +8088,6 @@ mv invocation
 of its permissions.
 If the response is not affirmative, the file is skipped.

address@hidden @address@hidden@var{how}}
address@hidden --reply
address@hidden interactivity
-This option is deprecated.
-
 @item -u
 @itemx --update
 @opindex -u
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