From owner-freebsd-standards Mon Jul 8 10:19:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6043937B401; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from numeri.campus.luth.se (numeri.campus.luth.se [130.240.197.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5AA43E4A; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:19:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k@numeri.campus.luth.se) Received: (from k@localhost) by numeri.campus.luth.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g68HJDR57547; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:19:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from k) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:19:12 +0200 From: Johan Karlsson To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Cc: sheldonh@freebsd.org Subject: adding -n flag to cp(1)/mv(1) Message-ID: <20020708191912.C56044@numeri.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I'm thinking about adding a flag to cp(1)/mv(1) to make it never overwrite an existing file. (see PR 7828 for the original suggestion) I guess a natural flag to use is -n as in the PR but I want to know if this violates any of the standards that we are trying to conform to. Or is this a realy stupid idea for some other (standards) reason? /Johan K -- Johan Karlsson mailto:johan@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message