mv exit status: `echo n |mv -i a b'

[Jim Meyering]

With fileutils-4.1, mv -i exits nonzero if any response to a prompt
is negative.  I want to change it to be more in line with my reading
of POSIX (and coincidentally with the behavior of several vendor-supplied
versions of mv :-).  That will also make it consistent with the way
cp's -i option works.

With fileutils-4.1:

  $ touch a b;echo n|/bin/mv -i a b; echo $?; echo
  /bin/mv: overwrite `b', overriding mode 0444? 1

With the proposed change:

  $ touch a b;echo n|./mv -i a b; echo $?; echo
  ./mv: overwrite `b', overriding mode 0444? 0

Does anyone know of a reason not to do make that change?

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This is the ambiguous part of the POSIX spec:

  EXIT STATUS
    The following exit values shall be returned:
      0 All input files were moved successfully.
      >0 An error occurred.

The exit status seems to be over-specified, because with -i and a
negative response, there is neither an error, nor have all files been moved.

Here's the description of -i:

  -i             Prompt for confirmation if the destination path exists.
                Any previous occurrences of the -f option is ignored.


Jim