From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 29 06:26:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA10050 for current-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA10045 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:26:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous220.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.220]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA17132; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 15:18:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id OAA11574; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:51:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970929145151.50498@panke.de> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:51:51 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@freebsd.org, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: silent cp -i References: <199709291139.VAA31427@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199709291139.VAA31427@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 09:39:46PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 09:39:46PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > >cp(1) is too silent if used with the option -i. It should > >print which input cp expect (y/n) and print a warning if the > >file was not overwritten. > > cp actually expects y/Y/other. This is correct, but may confus new users (press [yY]*\n for yes or *\n for no). -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/