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Re: cp should look for destination file operand BEFORE wildcard expansio
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: cp should look for destination file operand BEFORE wildcard expansion |
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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:50:00 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
> However, you can use other shell features, such as aliases
> or shell functions, to enable other features of cp by default
> when invoking cp in an interactive manner. For example,
> this is a pretty common idiom:
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> $ alias cp='cp -i'
Don't do that, use a different name. Otherwise you will fall into the
trap of relying on the presence of the alias and get no feedback when it
is not defined for whatever reason.
Andreas.
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