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

[Kamil Dudka]

Hello,

proposed patch is attached.


Kamil


On Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:10:58 Jim Meyering wrote:
> 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
> --
> 1.6.0.2.526.g5c283
>
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0001-cp-mv-add-n-option-to-not-overwrite-target.patch
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