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Incorrect return value of cp with no-clobber option
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Anoop Sharma |
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Incorrect return value of cp with no-clobber option |
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Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:26:05 +0530 |
When -n (--no-clobber) option of cp is used and the DEST file exists, then, as
expected, cp is not able to copy the SOURCE to DEST.
However, cp returns 0 in this case.
Shouldn't it return 1 to indicate that copy operation could not be completed?
In absence of this indication how is one to know that some recovery
action like re-trying cp with some other DEST name is required?
Regards,
Anoop
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