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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:27:16 +0200
From: Johan Karlsson <johan@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org
Cc: sheldonh@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: adding -n flag to cp(1)/mv(1)
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Ok my suggestion only applies to cp(1) since
mv(1) already has -n which does this.

/Johan K


On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 19:19 (+0200) +0000, Johan Karlsson wrote:
> 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

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Johan Karlsson		mailto:johan@FreeBSD.org

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