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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

by bb88 7y ago

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.

premek 7y ago
heh :) youre right
pwagland 7y ago
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 7y ago
This is also why I cringe when people suggest to alias `rm` to `rm -i`. That will bite you, believe me.