bug-coreutils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: man mv punctuation deficiency


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: Re: man mv punctuation deficiency
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:42:07 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

>> also, it appears to the user, that one must be the default behaviour,
>> so say so right there, else looks schizophrenic.

Jim> Neither is the default.
Jim> By default, you're prompted iff an existing destination is unwritable
Jim> and stdin is a tty.

OK, Yes the info page seems to mention this, but I'd repeat it on the
man page, perhaps even at -f and even -i...




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]