On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Richard Kimber wrote:

> Subject: copying files
> 
> Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, but
> which will avoid overwriting files with the same name by automatically
> creating a unique filename in the second directory, or is this
> something I need to program for myself?

Richard

The man page for cp  gives a -i option for cp that prompts before
overwriting.

David Teague
Debian user and advocate



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