Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden wrote:
> Maybe this could be done with the wc -l behavior for when the last
> line doesn't have a newline? Maybe I'm weird but I think the POSIX
> behavior is clearly counterintuitive.

If existing implementations agree with each other and with POSIX, then
there's no need to change any implementation or clarify the spec.
Maybe a new option with different behavior would be useful, though.


paul