Date: 09 Oct 2001 17:35:03 -0700 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp -i -R Message-ID: <t8het8fi2w.et8@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011009172052.A37340@pc5.abc> References: <20011009161204.A22196@pc5.abc> <3.0.5.32.20011009095525.031a30f0@mail.sage-american.com> <20011009172052.A37340@pc5.abc>
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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.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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