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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#61105: cp/mv: want a fatal --no-clobber |
Date: | Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:55:48 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.2 |
On 2023-01-30 13:35, Pádraig Brady wrote:
This is a good observation. Also the current "skip" functionality of coreutils cp -n is already catered for with the --update option.
For consistency, there too the exit status should reflect whether the cp action was done.
I installed the attached patch to implement this; comments welcome. In the meantime I'm boldly closing the bug report.
0001-cp-ln-mv-when-skipping-exit-with-nonzero-status.patch
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