Re: New feature in mv

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/04/2012 05:04 PM, Paweł Lampe wrote:
> Hi there !
>
> Few minutes ago, my mate asked me 'is there any way to swap two
> files ?'. I have realized, that the mv has option -S but it's all about
> suffix. I think, there should be also -s for swapping. It should work
> like:
> mv -s a b
> Effect should be like:
> a -> tmp
> b -> a
> tmp -> b
>
> Think about it

A fairly useful feature, but something as noted here
that might be more suited to a separate script,
that could be maintained within coreutils under the
recently mentioned contrib/ directory

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00014.html

thanks,
Pádraig.