On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Jim Meyering wrote:
Mikael Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a file "a" and a fifo "b". Running "cp a b" prompts "cp: overwrite
b?", but answering yes just writes the contents of "a" into the fifo. If
In this particular case, using the gnu-specific --remove-destination
option will make it do what you want.
Ah, i missed that one. What is the advantage of truncating the existing
file instead of removing it first? I guess the man page does state that it
won't remove existing files when it says existing files are opened with
O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, but I didn't realize the implications of this for
fifos and hardlinks.
--
Mikael Magnusson
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