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Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't
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Tim Waugh |
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Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't |
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Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:36:36 +0000 |
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:23:12PM +0200, 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.
Unless there are wc programs out there that behave differently (are
there?), I don't think this is really the same sort of situation.
Tim.
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- RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Jim Meyering, 2004/02/17
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Paul Jarc, 2004/02/17
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Jim Meyering, 2004/02/17
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, era+gmane, 2004/02/18
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Paul Jarc, 2004/02/18
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't,
Tim Waugh <=
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Paul Eggert, 2004/02/19
- Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't, Jim Meyering, 2004/02/19