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On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 22:01, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 2023-03-31 10:01, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > > Is this on purpose? > > Yes, part of the idea was to let shell programmers easily test whether > cp successfully copied the data. Having cp -i conform to POSIX was a > lesser consideration, though it's a bit nicer if -n and -i are somewhat > consistent. > > For what it's worth, the old behavior wasn't documented and the new > behavior is. >
