cpi and mvi

(C) Martin Väth (martin at mvath.de). This project is under the BSD license 2.0 (“3-clause BSD license”). SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

A POSIX shell wrapper for cp -i -a and mv -i, making use of diff

This is a somewhat verbose frontend for cp -i -a and mv -i: For each file you see the differences before you confirm/reject the copying/moving.

You get more detailed instructions by calling

• cpi -h
• mvi -h

Requirements

The cpi variant requires that your cp command supports the non-POSIX options

• -a
• -d
• --preserve=timestamps

Installation

For installation. just copy the content of bin/ into your $PATH. To obtain support for zsh completion, copy the content of zsh/ to your zsh's $fpath.

For Gentoo, there is an ebuild in the mv overlay (available over layman).