"Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 5.2.1-2
> Followup-For: Bug #160849
>
> independent from this bugreport (i did not known it), i filed a bug
> report on the GNU core bug page:
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=12903
Thanks for the report.
This is a common misunderstanding.
Fixing the underlying code to do what people expect will require
careful thought and is not a high priority. In the mean time
I've added to the description that will end up in the man page.
Now, the help output for --reply looks like this:
--reply={yes,no,query} specify how to handle the prompt about an
existing destination file. Note that
--reply=no has an effect only when mv
would prompt without -i or equivalent, i.e.,
when a destination file exists and is not
writable, standard input is a terminal, and
no -f (or equivalent) option is specified
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