the cp from recent coreutils is not compatible with cp from "GNU fileutils 4.0.36" package(as found on RH 7.1).
The old "cp -pr README.txt README_lang foo/bar/README.txt /tmp" would copy three files but would overwrite the first README.txt with the content of foo/bar/README.txt without further notice.
But newer versions will complain or fail:
RH-8.0: cp (fileutils) 4.1.9
-> cp -pr README.txt README_lang foo/bar/README.txt /tmp cp: warning: overwriting just-created `/tmp/README.txt' with `foo/bar/README.txt'
RH-9: cp (coreutils) 4.5.3
-> cp -pr README.txt README_lang foo/bar/README.txt /tmp cp: warning: overwriting just-created `/tmp/README.txt' with `foo/bar/README.txt'
SuSE 8.2: cp (coreutils) 4.5.8
-> cp -pr README.txt README_lang foo/bar/README.txt /tmp cp: will not overwrite just-created `/tmp/README.txt' with `foo/bar/README.txt'
Is that a bug or a feature!?
Thanks,
Steven
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