GNU bug report logs - #15727
doc: cp: expand dirs-vs-files with -f/--remove-dest

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 03:49:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Message #23 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Thomas <pth <at> suse.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15727: Bug: cp <-a|-archive> (w/<-f|--remove-destination>)
 breaks if one of files is a dir and other not
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:06:43 +0100

* Bernhard Voelker (mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de) [20131029 12:26]:

> hmm, well, could it be that this is because many features have
> been added over the years? ...

Leave alone checks that cp needs to do but dd doesn't.

Philipp
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 157 days ago.

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