move-if-change revision 1.1 1 1.1 christos #!/bin/sh
2 1.1 christos # Like mv $1 $2, but if the files are the same, just delete $1.
3 1.1 christos # Status is zero if successful, nonzero otherwise.
4 1.1 christos
5 1.1 christos VERSION='2011-01-28 20:09'; # UTC
6 1.1 christos # The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
7 1.1 christos # for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
8 1.1 christos # If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
9 1.1 christos # do its job. Otherwise, update this string manually.
10 1.1 christos
11 1.1 christos # Copyright (C) 2002-2007, 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
12 1.1 christos
13 1.1 christos # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
14 1.1 christos # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
15 1.1 christos # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
16 1.1 christos # (at your option) any later version.
17 1.1 christos
18 1.1 christos # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
19 1.1 christos # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20 1.1 christos # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
21 1.1 christos # GNU General Public License for more details.
22 1.1 christos
23 1.1 christos # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
24 1.1 christos # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
25 1.1 christos
26 1.1 christos usage="usage: $0 SOURCE DEST"
27 1.1 christos
28 1.1 christos help="$usage
29 1.1 christos or: $0 OPTION
30 1.1 christos If SOURCE is different than DEST, then move it to DEST; else remove SOURCE.
31 1.1 christos
32 1.1 christos --help display this help and exit
33 1.1 christos --version output version information and exit
34 1.1 christos
35 1.1 christos The variable CMPPROG can be used to specify an alternative to \`cmp'.
36 1.1 christos
37 1.1 christos Report bugs to <bug-gnulib (at] gnu.org>."
38 1.1 christos
39 1.1 christos version=`expr "$VERSION" : '\([^ ]*\)'`
40 1.1 christos version="move-if-change (gnulib) $version
41 1.1 christos Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
42 1.1 christos License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
43 1.1 christos This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
44 1.1 christos There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law."
45 1.1 christos
46 1.1 christos cmpprog=${CMPPROG-cmp}
47 1.1 christos
48 1.1 christos for arg
49 1.1 christos do
50 1.1 christos case $arg in
51 1.1 christos --help | --hel | --he | --h)
52 1.1 christos exec echo "$help" ;;
53 1.1 christos --version | --versio | --versi | --vers | --ver | --ve | --v)
54 1.1 christos exec echo "$version" ;;
55 1.1 christos --)
56 1.1 christos shift
57 1.1 christos break ;;
58 1.1 christos -*)
59 1.1 christos echo "$0: invalid option: $arg" >&2
60 1.1 christos exit 1 ;;
61 1.1 christos *)
62 1.1 christos break ;;
63 1.1 christos esac
64 1.1 christos done
65 1.1 christos
66 1.1 christos test $# -eq 2 || { echo "$0: $usage" >&2; exit 1; }
67 1.1 christos
68 1.1 christos if test -r "$2" && $cmpprog -- "$1" "$2" >/dev/null; then
69 1.1 christos rm -f -- "$1"
70 1.1 christos else
71 1.1 christos if mv -f -- "$1" "$2"; then :; else
72 1.1 christos # Ignore failure due to a concurrent move-if-change.
73 1.1 christos test -r "$2" && $cmpprog -- "$1" "$2" >/dev/null && rm -f -- "$1"
74 1.1 christos fi
75 1.1 christos fi
76 1.1 christos
77 1.1 christos ## Local Variables:
78 1.1 christos ## eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
79 1.1 christos ## time-stamp-start: "VERSION='"
80 1.1 christos ## time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d %02H:%02M"
81 1.1 christos ## time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
82 1.1 christos ## time-stamp-end: "'; # UTC"
83 1.1 christos ## End:
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