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From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
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Subject: Re: cp -i -R
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:35:03PM -0700, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> wrote:
> 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"!

I can reproduce this. 
Even "cp /kernel target" and "cp -f /kernel target" show the same
behaviour.

Nicolas

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