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

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:17:20AM -0600, you wrote:
> The second option that I recommend is to deprecate this option
> entirely and remove it from the code base. 

I think it's safe to say that a number of these utilities have gotten
more flags than they strictly need. Pruning may be a good thing.

> The longer it remains the harder it will be to change to better
> behavior later.

Making mv do everything people want when they want is a hopeless cause,
made harder by the fact that some of the oddness is a posix requirement.
I'd say that if someone has a nify feature they can't live without, it
is time for a new command with a new name, without compatability
baggage. Maybe call it mv++.

Mike Stone