Re: Behaviour of cp with symlinks changed

[Ignacio Fernández Galván]

--- Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> Copying through a destination symlink is fundamentally risky,
> so I've changed cp not to do it anymore.

OK, thanks, I see.

> Best is just not to do that anymore.  However, if it's something
> you cannot easily avoid, you can do this instead:
> 
>     $ cp -p link1 $(readlink -f link2)

Well, the problem is I don't do it, but it is sort of hardcoded in some
other program I use, which was failing and I tracked the error down to
this cp "feature". I will inform the maintainers of this other program.
However, it might be a good idea to have some option to force this
risky behaviour, maybe with --force ?

Thanks again
Ignacio


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