Re: man cp / cp --help: --reply=yes

[Eric Blake]

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According to Dave Jones on 5/13/2009 7:33 PM:

Hi Dave,

> --reply=yes (no? query?)
> 
> seems to work and, while it is very useful, it isn't in the man page or cp 
> --help.
> 
> Any reason?

Because it was deprecated, and is no longer present in the latest stable
release (7.4).
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#cp-and-mv-the-reply-option-is-deprecated

In its place is something that does more what you thought you were getting
with the undocumented version (whereas the undocumented version behaves
differently depending on whether you are connected to a tty).  From the
7.1 NEWS file:

  cp and mv accept a new option, --no-clobber (-n): silently refrain
  from overwriting any existing destination file

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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