Bug 120742
| Summary: | mv -i --reply=no doesn't seem to work | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Glen <glen> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | CC: | edp |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-04-21 15:50:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Confirmed; reported upstream. This is expected behaviour -- '-i' is equivalent to '--reply=ask', and '--reply=no' overrides that. The --reply option affects questions that would have been asked had --reply not been specified. So, if the destination file did not have w permission, --reply=no would have done what you wanted. In fact, the -u option is what you were after, but it isn't obvious. Discussing upstream. *** Bug 124865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: I'm trying this command: mv -i --reply=no * /some/directory If there are files in the destination directory with the same name as the files in the source directory, they will get overwritten. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.0-34.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run the command "mv -i --reply=no" 2. 3. Actual Results: Files got overwritten when they shouldn't have. Expected Results: I expected files with the same name to not be overwritten. Additional info: