GNU bug report logs - #18681
The Linux cp command has bugs

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Polehn, Mike A" <mike.a.polehn <at> intel.com>

Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #38 received at 18681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jon Stanley <jonstanley <at> gmail.com>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
Cc: "18681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <18681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, "Polehn,
 Mike A" <mike.a.polehn <at> intel.com>
Subject: Re: bug#18681: The Linux cp command has bugs
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:38:06 -0400

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> If you temporarily want to cancel the the alias, you can define an another
> alias as `cpf', and/or can use below instead of `cp'

Note that (in bash at least) you can prefix the command with a
backslash (\) to override an alias for that invocation, and is what I
typically do:

$ \cp <blah>
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