Re: cp should look for destination file operand BEFORE wildcard expansion

[Anshul Nigham]

Thanks everyone for the clarifications.

Anshul

On 2/20/07, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
>
> > However, you can use other shell features, such as aliases
> > or shell functions, to enable other features of cp by default
> > when invoking cp in an interactive manner.  For example,
> > this is a pretty common idiom:
> >
> > $ alias cp='cp -i'
>
> Don't do that, use a different name.  Otherwise you will fall into the
> trap of relying on the presence of the alias and get no feedback when it
> is not defined for whatever reason.
>
> Andreas.
>
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Anshul

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