Re: New feature in mv

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/05/2012 12:45 AM, Raphael S Carvalho wrote:
> 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?

Cool, thanks!

I would prototype a script in shell,
with possibly some of the same considerations as in this "rewrite" script,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-03/txtNTX6owUFov.txt

thanks,
Pádraig.