what will happen to the --reply option?

[alessandro salvatori]

Hello,

  some scripts I wrote time ago are now displaying a lot of lines like this
one:

cp: the --reply option is deprecated; use -i or -f instead

which is fairly annoying...

On top of that the only way for me to get the desired behaviour of skipping
existing files seems to be:

yes | tr 'y' 'n' | cp -iR source/ destination/ 2>/dev/null

which would then conceal any kind of error message (again, annoying)...

Thanks!
-Alessandro

[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: echo a > a
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: echo b > b
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: cp --reply=no a b
cp: the --reply option is deprecated; use -i or -f instead
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: cat a
a
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: cat b
b
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: yes | tr 'y' 'n' | cp -i a b
cp: overwrite `b'? [0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS:
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS:
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: yes | tr 'y' 'n' | cp -i a b >/dev/null
cp: overwrite `b'? [0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS:
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: yes | tr 'y' 'n' | cp -i a b 2>/dev/null
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: echo a
a
[0] asalvato-lnx:TESTS: echo b
b
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