GNU bug report logs - #11809
document "So how do we just simply make a backup file?"

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: document "So how do we just simply make a backup file?"
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:30:59 +0800

(info "(coreutils) Backup options") should add some examples, for
"So how do we make a backup file of m?"
$ ls
m
$ cp -b m m #no go
$ cp m n
$ mv -b n m
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