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| From: | Assaf Gordon |
| Subject: | bug#34988: mv: check before asking users useless questions |
| Date: | Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:00:05 -0600 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 |
tags 34988 notabug severity 34988 wishlist retitle 34988 mv: omit useless 'overwrite?' question stop On 2019-03-25 4:47 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/24/19 11:05 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:$ mv a b mv: overwrite 'b'? y mv: cannot overwrite non-directory 'b' with directory 'a' User thinks well why didn't you check before uselessly asking me?POSIX requires the useless question. That being said, the question could be omitted in the case you describe, if POSIXLY_CORRECT is not specified.
Marking this as a wishlist item. -assaf
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