Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > The old behavior of cp would try coping the device file to the new > location, which would obviously fail.
I have used Unix cp for decades to truncate files: cp /dev/null foo, where foo points to an already existing inode. But I have seen both Unix and Linux distributions that introduce default aliases in the shell, e.g. alias rm="/bin/rm -i" or alias ls="/bin/ls -F". Perhaps you ran a shell that redefined cp to be cp -R? -- Bjorn Danielsson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
