Anshul Nigham wrote: > Hi > > Using wildcard expansion, it is possible to unintentionally overwrite > files. E.g. consider a directory with two text files, a.txt and b.txt. > > $ cp *.txt > $ cat b.txt > I am A!! > > I don't think this could be intended or expected behavior in any > scenario. I suggest that the cp behavior be modified to look for a > destination file operand before expanding wildcards
cp doesn't expand wildcards, the shell does. So all cp sees is the individual params: a.txt b.txt Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
