On 2021-03-10 13:59, L A Walsh wrote:
On 2021/03/07 03:20, Emilio Garcia wrote:
Hi all,
I checked out the coreutils repo on Github and I would like to ask
you
to add a dry-run option in the mv command.
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When I've needed such functionality, I insert an 'echo'
before the 'mv' command, so in a script:
cmd=eval
if ((dry_run)); then
cmd=echo
fi
Me too; but that doesn't validate the arguments like Emilio wants.
E.g.
mv --dry-run existing-file nonexistent-dir/ # error
mv --dry-run nonexistent-object somewhere # error
mv --dry-run object /another/filesystem # diagnostic
