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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5
Severity: normal
When using
> cp -lar srcdir/* targetdir
on a srcdir containing files (no matter how deep in srcdir) with spaces in
their filenames, cp complains:
> cp: cannot create hard link `targetdir/(...)/filename' to
> `targetdir/(...)/filename': No such file or directory
This cryptical message (which implies trying to create a hardlink from a file
to itself?) is caused by a filename
containing a space. Note that I took the quotes in the above messages exactly
as they were: not even a small hint
about a whitespace at the end of a filename, it took me ages to find the cause
of this problem! Also note that
this problem isn't related to some kind of shell variable expansion, since I'm
using recursive cp. The file
responsible for my problems was about 5 levels deep in the directory structure
under srcdir.
In my opinion cp should be able to handle filenames containing all kinds of
permitted characters, this includes
filenames with a white space at the end.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Can't reproduce, no other reports of a similar problem. Closing.
Mike Stone
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