From a73c5cdedd754a0ecb448e6286b9bf6f1e369160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:52:04 +0000 Subject: (mv invocation): Describe new option: --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 076d343e5..098bc4653 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3707,7 +3707,7 @@ In this output format, some special characters, like @kbd{$}, @kbd{%}, backslash. Curly brackets @kbd{@{}, @kbd{@}} are protected with a backslash and a pair of dollar signs (to force mathematical mode). The backslash itself produces the sequence @code{\backslash@{@}}. -Circumflex and tilde diacritics produce the sequence @code{^\@{ @}} and +Circumflex and tilde diacritical marks produce the sequence @code{^\@{ @}} and @code{~\@{ @}} respectively. Other diacriticized characters of the underlying character set produce an appropriate @TeX{} sequence as far as possible. The other non-graphical characters, like newline and tab, @@ -5968,7 +5968,7 @@ it removes the originals. If the copy fails, then the part that was copied to the destination partition is removed. If you were to copy three directories from one partition to another and the copy of the first directory succeeded, but the second didn't, the first would be left on -the destination partion and the second and third would be left on the +the destination partition and the second and third would be left on the original partition. @cindex prompting, and @code{mv} @@ -6001,7 +6001,7 @@ Make a backup of each file that would otherwise be overwritten or removed. @opindex -f @opindex --force @cindex prompts, omitting -Do not prompt the user before removing an unwritable destination file. +Do not prompt the user before removing a destination file. @item -i @itemx --interactive @@ -6012,12 +6012,21 @@ Prompt whether to overwrite each existing destination file, regardless of its permissions. If the response does not begin with @samp{y} or @samp{Y}, the file is skipped. +@itemx @w{@kbd{--reply}[=@var{how}]} +@opindex --reply +@cindex interactivity +Specifying @option{--reply=yes} is equivalent to using @option{--force}. +Specify @option{--reply=no} to make @code{mv} act as if @samp{no} were +given as a response to every prompt about a destination file. +Specify @option{--reply=query} to make @code{mv} prompt the user +about each existing destination file. + @item -u @itemx --update @opindex -u @opindex --update @cindex newer files, moving only -Do not move a nondirectory that has an existing destination with the +Do not move a non-directory that has an existing destination with the same or newer modification time. @item -v -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf