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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:15:48 +1000 (EST)
From: DONALD PEDDER <jims_son AT jedi DOT apana DOT org DOT au>
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Subject: Re: confirm before over-write
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> What command do you want the confirm *with*?
>
> Replace?
> Copy?
> Xcopy?

   I haven't used replace before. I see that you can specify to only write
files that don't exist, but then you'd have to use the command again if
you DO want to replace some existing files.

   Copy or xcopy would be good. I have no idea why confirm would be turned
off by default - that makes no sense (it's one of the things I don't like
about Unix too - you can overwrite/remove something you didn't intend to
with a typo).

thanks,
  dp.