Re: cp/mv: add -n option to not overwrite target (Ubuntu bug #229182)

[Aaron Peterson]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Kamil Dudka <address@hidden> wrote:
> Maybe it's nightmare for beginners, but it is a common use case. Certain Linux
> distributions define alias cp='cp -i' by default in the user's profile. So if
> you type 'cp -n' it is translated to 'cp -i -n' and it should not cause an
> error.
>

Wow, We have to keep so many things in consideration...

Note, interactive, and no-clobber don't have to be exclusive... Here
is an example of them combined: Interactively see if the person wants
to overwrite, then say, oh, you can't do it because you told me not
to.

Then -n -i  would say it can't overwrite a certain file, and not even
have to ask.
 -i -n  would ask, and then say, can't overwrite or similar.

I believe that  might not be the posix way though...  Image magick
order matters...  actually in cp order matters... So order could
matter here too.