Re^6: A DWIM too far?

The /Y operator on windows forces it to overwrite without confirmation /-Y forces confirmation and there is no documented way to force failure when a file exists already.

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Eric Hodges

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Re^7: A DWIM too far? by QM (Parson) on Jun 18, 2004 at 18:48 UTC
I thought I got it to work under XP. Here on Win2K, I agree with you. Ah well, I think it's just broken across the board. -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: A DWIM too far? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 18, 2004 at 19:35 UTC
Don't use either? `P:\test\data>type hello.dat Hello world P:\test\data>type goodbye.dat Goodbye cruel world P:\test\data>rename hello.dat goodbye.dat A duplicate file name exists, or the file cannot be found. P:\test\data>type hello.dat Hello world` [download] Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algoritm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply] [d/l]