On 2023-03-31 10:01, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
Is this on purpose?
Yes, part of the idea was to let shell programmers easily test whether cp successfully copied the data. Having cp -i conform to POSIX was a lesser consideration, though it's a bit nicer if -n and -i are somewhat consistent.
For what it's worth, the old behavior wasn't documented and the new behavior is.
