"cp -n srcFile destFile" returns 0 if it copies the file. It also returns 0 if it fails to copy the file over an existing file. I would like "cp -n" to return 1 (or perhaps EEXIST) when it will refuse to overwrite an existing file. This would facilitate:
cp -n srcFile destFile && chmod +x destFile Or other similar idioms. Thanks! Tom Kimpton -- ---- Now, we can do this the hard way, or... well, actually there's just the hard way. -- Buffy Summers, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"