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From: aakanksha gaur <aakanksha.gaur <at> gmail.com>
To: 8405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8405: Information needed for 'cp'
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:12:19 +0530

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Hi,

I need to know what is the rationale behind this behavior ?

> cp aa bb
aa does not exist and neither does bb. No warning is thrown on performing
this operation.

However,
if I do

> cp dd cc
where cc is a non empty file, then a warning is thrown about the source file
being empty| invalid.
This is the warning thrown.

cp: cannot stat `dd': No such file or directory


Can I please know the rationale behind this behavior?



Thanks
Aakanksha Gaur

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