GNU bug report logs - #70887
In coreutils 9.5, "cp" command does not honor "--interactive" option

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Robert Hill <hill-robert <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 01:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Robert Hill <hill-robert <at> hotmail.com>
To: 70887 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70887: In coreutils 9.5, "cp" command does not honor "--interactive" option
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 23:03:09 +0000

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After upgrading coreutils from 9.0 to 9.5, the following change occurred:

In coreutils 9.0, the command "cp -Tipruvx /src-dir /dst-dir" requested
interactive confirmation before replacing an old destination file with a
newer source file, as expected.

In coreutils 9.5, the command "cp -Tipruvx /src-dir /dst-dir" no longer
requests interactive confirmation, but just goes ahead and replaces old
destination files with newer source files, which is not expected.

Thank you in advance for looking at this, Bob.


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