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Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils |
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Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:33:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <address@hidden> writes:
> Is this just the current working or the expected behaviour?
>
> In my opinion the --reply=no would make much more sense if i could use it
> in scripts to avoid overwriting files.
IMHO what you are looking for does not fit into the purpose of --reply.
This option only provides an answer to any question that may be asked (and
suppresses the display of the question if --reply != query), without
actually changing the question itself.
Andreas.
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- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, (continued)
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Michael Stone, 2005/06/24
- Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Tim Waugh, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Tim Waugh, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, James Youngman, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/30
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils,
Andreas Schwab <=