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Can I get the backup option of cp and mv to work with directories?

--backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file The man page does say that it works on file. It doesn't seem to have any effect on directories. Is there anyway to make this ...
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Restoring backup files

I have a directory in which are listed some .py files and some .py.bak files. I want to delete the .py files and restore the backup file renaming them *.py. Is there a shell script that can do this? ...