On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Richard Kimber wrote: > Subject: copying files > > Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, but > which will avoid overwriting files with the same name by automatically > creating a unique filename in the second directory, or is this > something I need to program for myself? Richard The man page for cp gives a -i option for cp that prompts before overwriting. David Teague Debian user and advocate