tag 17936 wontfix close 17936 stop On 07/04/2014 01:55 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: > GNU Developers: > > I would like to make a suggestion for the "cp" command. As we all know, > the cp command accepts two arguments (cp SRC DEST). Could someone add a > little feature to give the cp command an interesting feature that the "copy" > command on DOS uses? On DOS, when "copy" is given one argument (the source > file), the command will assume the destination is the current working > directory. Can such a feature be added to "cp"? It is awful that a command by > Microsuck has an awesome feature that no Unix, Linux, or GNU guru has added > to the popular GNU-coreutils command. Also, if such a feature is added to > "cp", can "mv" also get the same feature?
Not at this stage no. You can easily add a function it your shell config to provide this as a wrapper. Consider the issue with: cd dangerous safe="blah" cp trigger $Safe #oops typo => silent erroneous behavior thanks, Pádraig.
