Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 120742
mv -i --reply=no doesn't seem to work
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:40 EST
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:
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. ***