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Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option


From: Tim Waugh
Subject: Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:51:30 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:37:35AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:

> address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> > The second option that I recommend is to deprecate this option
> > entirely and remove it from the code base.  The longer it remains the
> > harder it will be to change to better behavior later.  It is not
> > really useful as it stands today.  (I am happy to see challenges to
> > that last statement.)
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> I'm leaning toward deprecating (undocument and emit a warning)
> --reply=ANYTHING.
> 
> Does anyone find the --reply=no option to be useful?
> The other two are equivalent to -i and -f.

Some Linux distributions have alias rm="rm -i" for root, and the way
to avoid the prompt then is --reply=yes.  It's useful to have an
option that undoes the effect of '-i', IMHO.

Tim.
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