I have submitted a bug (feature request) to savannah (<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=4771&group_id=2613>) but I don't think that is set up to gateway to the mailing list so I thought I would also send a message to the list in case people want to discuss it.
It would be handy if some of the coreutils (particularly cp and mv) had a --dry-run option that tries to do everything short of actually copying or moving the files. The output of --dry-run --verbose would be the same as the output of --verbose, as far as possible. The suggested name of the option is chosen for consistency with GNU patch. Myself I would find such an option useful for a wrapper program I am writing around mv, which looks at the files being moved and writes a .htaccess file for Apache to set up http redirects. I would like it to check for redirection loops before trying to move any files, and the simplest way to do that would be to ask mv: if I did run you, what files would you move? Of course if --dry-run succeeds it would not be guaranteed that a following real run of mv or cp would produce the same results, but it would be good enough. -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
