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Behaviour of cp with symlinks changed


From: Ignacio Fernández Galván
Subject: Behaviour of cp with symlinks changed
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:19:31 +0000 (GMT)

Hi all,

I'm sorry if this is not a bug, I didn't find another list to just ask
general questions...

My problem is the following:

$ ln -sf file1 link1
$ ln -sf file2 link2
$ touch file1
$ cp -p link1 link2
cp: cannot create regular file `link2': File exists

This happens in a Mandriva 2008 systems (coreutils 6.9), but it didn't
happen in Mandriva 2007 (as far as I remember) and it doesn't happen in
another SuSE system with coreutils 5.2.1.

The expected result would be to have file1 copied into file2, through
the symlinks pointing to them. Is there some other option I have to add
to cp? I tried several things but they didn't work.

Thanks
Ignacio


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