Re: New feature in mv

[Raphael S Carvalho]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>

I read this page:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00014.html
So I would really like to create that program. Is it still even needed?

Att, Raphael SC <address@hidden>