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Re: cp and --backup error
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: cp and --backup error |
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Fri, 16 Jun 2017 06:53:07 -0700 |
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 3:11 AM, slash mais <address@hidden> wrote:
> The command:
> cp -r -P --preserve=all --strip-trailing-slashes --backup=numbered
> "/source-dir/source-file" "/source-dir/"
> returns:
> cp: ‘/source-dir/source-file’ and ‘/source-dir/source-file’ are the
> same file
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> This result is wrong because '--backup' has been specified, and 'cp'
> should do the backup and copy actions regardless in this case.
If you really want to do that, you must also specify the -f (--force) option.