Re^2: A DWIM too far?

"touch temp1 temp2; mv temp2 temp1"? You'll be left with only temp1.

No doubt that is true on your system but on RedHat flavour Linux you will get a prompt before the overwrite:

[root@devel3 root]# touch temp1 temp2; mv temp2 temp1
mv: overwrite `temp1'? n
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cheers

tachyon

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Re^3: A DWIM too far? by hv (Prior) on Jun 18, 2004 at 00:53 UTC
I think you'll find that this happens only because RedHat sets up by default an alias (for root only) that rewrites 'mv' to 'mv -i'. Hugo	[reply]
Re^4: A DWIM too far? by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jun 18, 2004 at 01:04 UTC
It is as you say. `[root@devel3 root]# cat .bashrc [snip] # User specific aliases and functions alias mv='mv -i'` [download] cheers tachyon	[reply] [d/l]