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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhstore overwriting files


From: rader
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] mhstore overwriting files
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:53:45 -0500

 > I looked quickly at the mhstore code last night and
 > see where to insert the hook for this.  That was the hard
 > part.
 > 
 > Any suggestions on adding this?
 > 
 >   -clobber [ask|suffix|never|always]
 > 
 > "always" is the current behavior, and might be the most
 > useful in scripts.  But I don't think that it should remain
 > the default.
 > 
 > "never" might be a bad idea?  Or the exit status could be
 > a count of files that were not overwritten.
 > 
 > I'd use "ask".

what would "-clobber suffix" do?  
(haven't been following this thread closely.)

"-clobber auto" please!?
incremented file names
like Firefox download does
"fu.gif" -> fu.gif fu(1).gif etc

steve
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