Archlinux i386, Coreutils 7.1-1 option --suffix does not function when there exists a numbered backup.
bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -b -S my -v `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -b -S my -v `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' (backup: `./vimrcmy') bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -b -S my -v `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' (backup: `./vimrcmy') bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -b -S my -v `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' (backup: `./vimrcmy') bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -S my -v --backup=numbered `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' (backup: `./vimrc.~1~') bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -S my -v --backup=numbered `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' (backup: `./vimrc.~2~') bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -S my -v --backup=numbered `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' (backup: `./vimrc.~3~') bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -b -S my -v `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' (backup: `./vimrc.~4~') bash-3.2$ cp /etc/vimrc . -b -S my -v `/etc/vimrc' -> `./vimrc' (backup: `./vimrc.~5~') And if there were no bug, is there some option to combine fixed and numbered suffix? E.g. file.copy1, file.copy2,... -- Best regards, Sergei Guzenkov “Hire people who are smarter than you and get out of their way.” Howard Schultz _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
