-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jan Engelhardt on 3/11/2007 10:28 AM: > Hello, > > > by default, coreutils cp will overwrite a file. Hence I put in > > alias cp='/bin/cp -i'
This list tends to frown on that practice. Individually, you can set aliases to whatever you like. But system-wide, you are just setting your users up to expect it, perhaps unknowingly, and it tends to come back and haunt them when they swap to a different setup. But I don't manage your system, so I can't force you to change your opinion. > > "cp" on the other hand is missing this. The following patch adds it in. Sorry, but POSIX requires that 'cp -i' and 'cp -f' are orthogonal, and that neither overrides the other. This patch is wrong because it goes against POSIX. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cp.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9GtX84KuGfSFAYARAlnzAKC/hGRQsG5anzFk6tiQvfGT9vTj0wCgoWmT zU6pomR+zB8yKa/BQQJJ6OY= =8SmW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
