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Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

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On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 12:16:46PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> And what if some of the destination names already exist? That's the
> point of deleting the existing files, I'd imagine.

You're assuming too much.

Given the communication we've seen thus far, the most likely scenario is
"I have a code snippet that will rename all the files in a directory, so
now I just have to wipe out the directory first, then make the files,
then use this code snippet to rename them all."

If the desired destination files already exist, the only sane thing to
do is abort with an error message, unless the user used a force option.

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not wanting to delete somebody's home directory mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-07-05 17:30 +0200
  Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-05 17:30 +0200
    Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-07-05 17:40 +0200
      Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-07-05 17:40 +0200
        Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-05 17:50 +0200
          Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-07-05 18:20 +0200
            Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-05 19:00 +0200
              Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-07-05 19:30 +0200
      Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-07-05 17:40 +0200
  Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-07-05 18:40 +0200
    Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-07-05 19:40 +0200
      Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-05 20:00 +0200
    Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-07-05 19:50 +0200
      Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-05 21:10 +0200
        Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-07-05 23:00 +0200
      Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-06 10:40 +0200
        Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-07-06 13:10 +0200
          Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-06 14:40 +0200
            Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory Wolf Halton <wolf.halton@gmail.com> - 2019-07-06 15:10 +0200
            Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-07-06 16:30 +0200
              Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-07-06 17:40 +0200
                Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2019-07-06 18:10 +0200
            Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-06 17:20 +0200
    Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-07-05 20:00 +0200
      Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-07-05 21:10 +0200
  Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-07-05 22:30 +0200

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