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On 2/1/24 04:09, Seungchul Lee wrote:
man page description has following line,
"If no option is specified, -P is assumed."
But in my machine, its default behavior seems -L without any option for pwd.
'man pwd' and 'env pwd --help' also tells:
NOTE: your
Hello,
man page description has following line,
"If no option is specified, -P is assumed."
But in my machine, its default behavior seems -L without any option for pwd.
Sincerely yours,
Lee.
On 1/31/24 06:06, Pádraig Brady wrote:
To my mind the most protective option takes precedence.
That's not how POSIX works with mv -i and mv -f. The last flag wins. I
assume this is so that people can have aliases or shell scripts that
make -i the default, but you can override by specifying
On 30/01/2024 18:31, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2024-01-30 03:18, Pádraig Brady wrote:
So we now have the proposed change as:
- revert -n to old silent success behavior
- document -n as deprecated
- Leave --update=none as is (will be synonymous with -n)
- Provide --update=none-fail
