Hi,

 

I need to know what is the rationale behind this behavior ?

 

> cp aa bb

aa does not exist and neither does bb. No warning is thrown on performing this operation.

 

However,

if I do

 

> cp dd cc

where cc is a non empty file, then a warning is thrown about the source file being empty| invalid.

This is the warning thrown.

 

cp: cannot stat `dd': No such file or directory

 

 

Can I please know the rationale behind this behavior?

 

 

 

Thanks

Aakanksha Gaur