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Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:38:02 -0500
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address@hidden wrote:
> Maybe this could be done with the wc -l behavior for when the last
> line doesn't have a newline? Maybe I'm weird but I think the POSIX
> behavior is clearly counterintuitive.

If existing implementations agree with each other and with POSIX, then
there's no need to change any implementation or clarify the spec.
Maybe a new option with different behavior would be useful, though.


paul




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