How to make `mv the hard way' fail
Shankar Unni
shankarunni@netscape.net
Mon Dec 13 21:13:00 GMT 2004
wayne willcox wrote:
> If you really want that kind
> of interaction it is a trival shell script that wraps the mv
> command and can prompt the user for any number of things including
> "are you sure",, "again are you sure you want to move this file"
mv already *has* the -i option, and it does just what you describe.
The reason I proposed tacking on this other prompt to the same option is
that:
(a) the option is called "--interactive" in full, and suggests that it
controls *all* interactive behavior in "mv".
(b) it seemed ..
(oh, well, never mind...)
I'll just create it as a long-only option for the moment
(--(no-)copy-dir-if-busy)
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