> Anyone have a way to hack that to cut the two 'mv's down to one? Yup: mv -bS .bak file{.new,} Should give the same result if you're using gnu coreutil

> Anyone have a way to hack that to cut the two 'mv's down to one? Yup: mv -bS .bak file{.new,} Should give the same result if you're using gnu coreutils 'mv', though it's obviously not as generally useful as nested braces.