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Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:33:49 +0200
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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <address@hidden> writes:

> Is this just the current working or the expected behaviour?
>
> In my opinion the --reply=no would make much more sense if i could use it 
> in scripts to avoid overwriting files.

IMHO what you are looking for does not fit into the purpose of --reply.
This option only provides an answer to any question that may be asked (and
suppresses the display of the question if --reply != query), without
actually changing the question itself.

Andreas.

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