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Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't
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Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't |
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18 Feb 2004 13:23:12 +0200 |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:57:27 +0100, Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
posted to gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs:
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) wrote:
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> There is a discrepancy between POSIX and common practice
>>> with respect to how `cp -if a b' should work.
>> Someone probably ought to notify the POSIX folks about that and get a
>> clarification. Maybe they'll amend the spec to allow the existing
>> behavior.
> I've just done that.
Maybe this could be done with the wc -l behavior for when the last
line doesn't have a newline? Maybe I'm weird but I think the POSIX
behavior is clearly counterintuitive.
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- RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Jim Meyering, 2004/02/17
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Paul Jarc, 2004/02/17
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Jim Meyering, 2004/02/17
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't,
era+gmane <=
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Paul Jarc, 2004/02/18
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Tim Waugh, 2004/02/18
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Paul Eggert, 2004/02/19
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Jim Meyering, 2004/02/19