GNU bug report logs - #6022
cp: Make --backup the default

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Salvador <salvador.mazza33 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: An enhancement request for the Cp command.
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:51:40 -0300

Hello.
I want to request a feature for the Cp command that consist in renaming 
a file from the source when a file in the destination directory with the 
same name already exists. I am thought It could be something like: from 
file.jpg to file-1.jpg.
This behavior already exists in Web browsers and file managers.
Thanks.

Message #16 received at 6022-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Salvador <salvador.mazza33 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6022-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drake Wyrm <wyrm <at> haell.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6022: An enhancement request for the Cp command.
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:18:15 -0700

This issue has been marked as needing more information from the
submitter for quite a while.  The last was 246 days ago on 24 Apr 2010.
Without any more input this issue cannot make progress.  Therefore I
am closing the bug report.

Note that I think there may be something there with the enhancement
request.

Drake Wyrm wrote:
> I think what he wants is for the backup mechanism to preserve an
> existing suffix on the filename by inserting the versioning token
> somewhere in the middle of the filename.

I think that could be a useful feature.  But it would need someone to
work on it and it would need a good statement of the feature.  Drake's
summary and example looked like a good place to start.  But it isn't a
trivial feature to implement and some cases will cause trouble.

Bob

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