When -n (--no-clobber) option of cp is used and the DEST file exists, then, as expected, cp is not able to copy the SOURCE to DEST.
However, cp returns 0 in this case. Shouldn't it return 1 to indicate that copy operation could not be completed? In absence of this indication how is one to know that some recovery action like re-trying cp with some other DEST name is required? Regards, Anoop
