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Date:      Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:12:04 +0200
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   cp -i -R
Message-ID:  <20011009161204.A22196@pc5.abc>
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I'm wondering if /bin/cp is working as documented.
cp -i -R src target
is overwriting a regular file named target/src 
WITHOUT any warning, if src is a symlink.

I think, this behaviour does not match the documentation.

Either cp or the docu should be changed.

Nicolas

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