One of my co-workers brought to my attention a most unusual problem with the cp command. Originally, this problem was discovered on a AIX system but he also found this problem exist on the Linux system. He contacted IBM directly to inform them, but was told the cp command was functioning properly.
The problem on occurs when using the cp command and there are only 2 source files and the '*' is used, and the destination is inadvertently left off. Example: mkdir test cat /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf > test/file1.txt cat /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf > test/file2.txt cp test/*.txt <enter> You will now notice no error output and the file2.txt is the same as file1.txt Doug Stamford Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. IT Production Support (904) 370-6394 dougstamf...@winn-dixie.com Good Judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgement. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
