#2154: Cactus: suppress interaction when using mv in make files --------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: Roland Haas | Owner: (none) Type: defect | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------+---------------------------------
Comment (by Erik Schnetter):
POSIX does not requires this in general: This is only the case if either the "-i" option is given, or if the destination is not writable by the user.
If a computing centre changes "mv" to "mv -i", then this is usually done via a shell alias. Those do not apply in a shell script.
Is there a particular case where this is a problem? Almost every configure script uses "mv"; if "mv" was somehow broken, then most software would cease to function.