Alberto Salvia Novella <es204904...@gmail.com> writes: > In the past if you did: > cp --no-clobber $in $out > > And "out" existed, "cp" exited with 0. But now, with coreutils 9.2, it > exists with 1. > > Is this on purpose? > > (When replying include my email in the field "to", as I'm not subscribed to > this list)
We hit this in Gentoo at https://bugs.gentoo.org/902751. We concluded the usage in the ebuild ("build script") was wrong, given that the coreutils-9.2 NEWS says: > 'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now exit with nonzero status if they skip their > action because the destination exists, and likewise for 'cp -i', > 'ln -i', and 'mv -i' when the user declines. (POSIX specifies > this for 'cp -i' and 'mv -i'.) It still was a bit unexpected though given POSIX doesn't specify -n.
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