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To: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
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Subject: Re: cp -i -R
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From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 09 Oct 2001 17:35:03 -0700
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Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> writes:

> nicolas@pc5 ~> cd test
> nicolas@pc5 ~/test> mkdir target
> nicolas@pc5 ~/test> cp /kernel target
> nicolas@pc5 ~/test> ln -s nonexistent kernel
...
> nicolas@pc5 ~/test> cp -R -i kernel target
> nicolas@pc5 ~/test> cd target
> nicolas@pc5 ~/test/target> ls -l
> total 0
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 nicolas  users  11 Oct  9 17:08 kernel@ -> nonexistent

Then do "cp -i /kernel target" and instead of asking if you want
to clobber "target/kernel", it creates "target/nonexistent"!

Maybe that's old, well-known behaviour, but it sure suprised this
long-time UnX user.  (Similar to my suprise that some commands treat
"dirname" and "dirname/" differently.  I suppose I should try harder to
remember which ones.  And get around to getting that behavior into the
man pages.)

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