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		bb88 on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Renaming files with mv without typing the name two... Graybeard here (never thought I'd say that). 25 years of unix/linux in production systems. Changing the default behavior of a posix command is a footgun. If I wanted to get help from mv: `$ mv --help Usage: file [OPTION...] [FILE...] Determine type of FILEs.` I get the help for the file command.

pwagland on April 14, 2020 | [–]

And this is _exactly_ why, although this is cool, it would have been cooler had it been renamed to, for example, `imv` (aka the name from the rename tools project ;-) )

michaelcampbell on April 14, 2020 | | [–]

This is also why I cringe when people suggest to alias `rm` to `rm -i`. That will bite you, believe me.

premek on April 14, 2020 | [–]

heh :) youre right

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