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/bin/cp and operator precedence of -i over -f, coreutuils 5.2.1


From: Ken Johanson
Subject: /bin/cp and operator precedence of -i over -f, coreutuils 5.2.1
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:27:24 -0600
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Dear Sir/Madam

Recent vesions of /bin/cp seem to differ from mv and rm in that -f no longer takes precedence over -i. This has the effect of not being able to override the typical linux distro's .bachrc cp-alias "safe" declaration, of

   alias cp='cp -i'

Thank you,
ken

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