Re: coreutils bug with "ln x d/"

[Paul Jarc]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> While looking at cp, ln, and mv and thinking about how to implement
> the -D/--no-destdir option I proposed in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-06/msg00142.html>,

I think this would be more useful (you suggested calling it --as-is):
<URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00037.html>
The main difference is that --syntactic/--as-is still lets you have
the convenience of omitting the target basename if it's the same as
the source, by providing a target that ends with "/".  It still
doesn't depend on the contents of the filesystem, like -D, so there
are no surprises.


paul