On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:57:27 +0100, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) wrote: >> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There is a discrepancy between POSIX and common practice >>> with respect to how `cp -if a b' should work. >> Someone probably ought to notify the POSIX folks about that and get a >> clarification. Maybe they'll amend the spec to allow the existing >> behavior. > I've just done that.
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. /* era */ -- formail -s procmail <http://www.iki.fi/era/spam/ >http://www.euro.cauce.org/ cat | more | cat<http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html>http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
