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bug#10020: cp -i -l asks for permission to overwrite then fails to do so
From: |
Maximiliano Curia |
Subject: |
bug#10020: cp -i -l asks for permission to overwrite then fails to do so |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:20:29 -0300 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Hi,
I'm reviewing some old bugs reported to Debian and found this one interesting.
The problem seems to be that cp -l won't work if the file exists, and the -i
option
won't "force" (work as if the user has given a -f option) the deletion of the
destination file, to make the link work.
A small test could be:
$ rm -rf test; ls test; mkdir test; touch test/a test/b; cp -il test/a test/b
ls: cannot access test: No such file or directory
cp: overwrite `test/b'? y
cp: cannot create link `test/b': File exists
So, either the question generated with the -i option shouldn't be asked, or it
shouldn't fail.
The full report can be found here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455522
Thanks,
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