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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:09:34 +0100, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> said:

> $ touch a b;mv -fi a b
> $

...which violates the standard.  Since the `i' flag is given last, it
is the one which must be obeyed.

-GAWollman

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