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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!netnews.louisville.edu!starbase.spd.louisville.edu!aldavi01
  3. From: aldavi01@rigel.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
  4. Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
  5. Sender: news@netnews.louisville.edu (Netnews)
  6. Message-ID: <aldavi01.721351200@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
  7. Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:20:00 GMT
  8. Reply-To: Arlie Davis <aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
  9. References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <1992Nov9.215307.11145@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: rigel.spd.louisville.edu
  11. Organization: University of Louisville
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  14. In <1992Nov9.215307.11145@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
  15.  
  16. > How about the fact that it is default for mv to overwrite existing files?
  17. > It's way too easy to type something like
  18.  
  19. >     mv <pattern>
  20.  
  21. If you find this peevesome, do this: "alias mv='mv -i'".  It's in the fine
  22. manual pages.
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