[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: > However, you can use other shell features, such as aliases > or shell functions, to enable other features of cp by default > when invoking cp in an interactive manner. For example, > this is a pretty common idiom: > > $ alias cp='cp -i'
Don't do that, use a different name. Otherwise you will fall into the trap of relying on the presence of the alias and get no feedback when it is not defined for whatever reason. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
