At Thursday 2005-01-27 14:32, you wrote:

From: "Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr@rudbek.com>

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At Tuesday 2005-01-25 14:28, you wrote:

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What is the rationale for having copy_file fail if the target file exists?

This is not how any cp/copy in any shell I know of works, actually quite surprising.

in windows (and every OS I've been on the writing team) the shell will at least _ask_ for permission to overwrite.

*nix cp has a -i option to query you, but the default behavior is to overwrite quietly. The shells do nothing to change that.

I wasn't on the team that wrote any flavor of *nix

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