Alan Curry wrote:
Марк Коренберг writes:
How to reproduce:
$ ln -s non-exist tgt
[...]
$ cp /etc/passwd tgt/
cp: cannot create regular file `tgt/': Is a directory
Novices can not understand this message :)
The same confusing error message also occurs in the simpler case where the
Jim Meyering writes:
Thanks for the suggestions.
Here's the patch I'm considering:
[I first patched copy.c's copy_reg, included at end,
but didn't like that as much; the core copying code
should not be encumbered like that, and other users of copy.c
are not affected. ]
Cross-filesystem
Hi Folks,
Sorry to revive a 2-year old thread, but the rest of the thread is easy to find.
Exec summary: a user wanted a merge delimiters options, and the
discussion kind of digressed to there is a more clever way to do it,
and why should this be in cut?
The responses in the thread as to why
On 21/11/10 01:06, Leo Lopes wrote:
Hi Folks,
Sorry to revive a 2-year old thread, but the rest of the thread is easy to
find.
Exec summary: a user wanted a merge delimiters options, and the
discussion kind of digressed to there is a more clever way to do it,
and why should this be in
On 11/21/2010 01:49 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
./cp: invalid destination: `no-such/'
a destination with a trailing slash must refer to an existing directory
In addition to the problem with mv that Alan mentions,
this diagnostic is still confusing, at least for me. Also, what's
the
Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 21/11/10 01:06, Leo Lopes wrote:
Hi Folks,
Sorry to revive a 2-year old thread, but the rest of the thread is easy to
find.
Exec summary: a user wanted a merge delimiters options, and the
discussion kind of digressed to there is a more clever way to do it,
and why
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 11/21/2010 01:49 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
./cp: invalid destination: `no-such/'
a destination with a trailing slash must refer to an existing directory
In addition to the problem with mv that Alan mentions,
this diagnostic is still confusing, at least for me. Also,
