The previous behaviour was to overwrite a symlink only when the new
destination did not exist, i.e. to avoid creating a symlink to an
existing file! It had not been documented and it seems
counter-intuitive to me. So the new behavior protects symlinks pointing
to existing targets from being changed.
Also update manpage to document this mode.
[kzak@redhat.com: - rename --dry-run to --no-act]
Signed-off-by: Alexander F Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
As per the convention shown in Documentation/howto-man-page.txt.
Also make a few other tiny adjustments along the way.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Try to do all file operations even when one or some of them fail, and
use exit value to inform what happen.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
It seems better to not have a reference to the program that is not
available in many cases on usual Linux installation.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Use dates without the day, use the full month name, put "util-linux" in
the lower left corner, and "User Commands" or "System Administration"
at the top center.
Also improve here and there the one-line program description.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Add new verbose and long options to manual page. I also added
warning section which hopefully gets read by people who run the
command first time.
It might be good idea to make the rename such that it would not
overwrite by default, and have a --force option if an use wants
that. In current state the rename is somewhat dangerous.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
G.raud Meyer
Kenyon Ralph
Aner Perez
Karel Zak
Alexander F Rødseth
Sébastien Helleu
Kaligule
Benno Schulenberg
Sami Kerola
Jan (yac) Matějka
Peter Breitenlohner
Li Zefan