GNU bug report logs - #15650
"cp: warning: source file ‘f’ specified more than once" said more than once too!

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.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: "cp: warning: source file ‘f’ specified more
 than once" said more than once too!
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:28:55 +0800

$ touch f
$ mkdir w
$ cp f f f w
cp: warning: source file ‘f’ specified more than once
cp: warning: source file ‘f’ specified more than once

Hey, you yourself say that more than once itself!

So either say
cp: warning: source file ‘f’ specified more than once
just once, or say
cp: warning: source file ‘f’ specified again
n-1 times.
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