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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Subject: bug#15650: closed ("cp: warning: source file ‘f’
 specified more than once" said more than once too!)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:55:05 +0000
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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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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 15650-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15650: "cp: warning: source file ‘f’ specified more than once" said more than once too!
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:53:58 +0000
tag 15659 wontfix
stop

On 10/19/2013 11:28 AM, jidanni <at> jidanni.org wrote:
> $ 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.

So we record this about each arg:

struct F_triple
{
  char *name;
  ino_t st_ino;
  dev_t st_dev;
};

I suppose we could add a 'count' member,
and a corresponding seen_file_count() function.

Though I don't think the complication/clarification
is warranted in this case.

thanks,
Pádraig.


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