On 2011-07-06 21:07:09 +0200, Benoît Knecht wrote:
> As for the insufficient documentation, coreutils man pages tend to be a
> bit short on words, because they are generated from the command's help
> output. But they always point to the Texinfo manual for details, which
> in this case states: "Do not warn about or create files that do not
> exist." So the "no warning about non-existing files" behavior _is_
> documented.
The lack of documentation was actually fixed in the Texinfo manual
(this was part of my bug report):
In Debian/lenny:
`-c'
`--no-create'
Do not create files that do not exist.
In Debian/squeeze:
`-c'
`--no-create'
Do not warn about or create files that do not exist.
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