Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK, I've just submitted an Aardvark for this to the POSIX folks (my
reference number 20050304a).
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https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?source=Llistname=austin-review-lid=1907
Thanks for doing that!
Hi Bob,
I've noticed that my use of `source' below might be misunderstood.
Here's a snippet from the documentation that should help:
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote:
...
I know this is one of the features that you
Hi Jim
Jim Meyering wrote:
I've noticed that my use of `source' below might be misunderstood.
Here's a snippet from the documentation that should help:
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
I can see that you are emphasizing the difference between the set
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
I've noticed that my use of `source' below might be misunderstood.
Here's a snippet from the documentation that should help:
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
I can see that you are emphasizing
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
$ mkdir a b c
$ touch {a,b}/important.h
$ cp a/*.h b/*.h c
cp: will not overwrite just-created `c/important.h' with `b/important.h'
Hmm, does POSIX allow this behavior? I just visited
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
$ mkdir a b c
$ touch {a,b}/important.h
$ cp a/*.h b/*.h c
cp: will not overwrite just-created `c/important.h' with `b/important.h'
Hmm, does POSIX allow this behavior? I just visited
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's be nice to fix POSIX.
OK, I've just submitted an Aardvark for this to the POSIX folks (my
reference number 20050304a).
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Jim Meyering wrote:
Right. My motivation for adding this `feature' was to prevent
`mv a/* b/* dir' from destroying (silently!) user data. By the
same token, a successful invocation of `cp a/* b/* dir' might well
be followed by rm -rf a b.
I know this is one of the features that you really
¤´Æ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I have a question for cp tools.
CP tool is so convenient for make processing, but I¡¯ve had trouble with
copying some files.
cp: will not overwrite just-created `../../1H/uimdrv.h' with
`../../services/uim/uimdrv.h'
cp: will not overwrite just-created
