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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:12:27 +1100
From: Dave Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
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Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cp -n vs. test -f
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On 25/01/06, Andrew P. <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "The -v and -n options are non-standard and their use in scripts is
> > not recommended."
>
> cp manpage has this since FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE,
> can we get over it and start using it?

It's non-standard as many other OSes (Solaris for one) don't have
them. It makes the semantics a lot clearer too, since it is very
obvious that you only want to copy when the destination doesn't exist;
if you don't remember the meaning of "-n", you might guess it means
something else entirely.


Dave.