Hello there, Thank you for the investigation! Apologies it turned out "not to be you" 😅
With regards, Ntentos Stavros On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 14:03, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > > On 10/06/2025 11:35, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > On 10/06/2025 08:56, Σταύρος Ντέντος wrote: > >> Hello there, > >> > >> I was wondering: Should the error message contain `-n/--no-clobber` > >> and/or use the same flag as the one used in the invocation? > >> > >> Rationale: I try to write my dotfiles without shorthands - for future > >> readability. > >> So, "after a distro upgrade (Ubuntu 24.04)", it was so weird to me to > >> read that "`-n` is deprecated". > >> > >> I assumed it was because of the shorthand was used - but I haven't > >> used it. Because of the aliases, my `cp` is plain `cp [-r] a b`. So no > >> `-n` on the terminal, > >> > >> Remembering that I am using an alias: > >> ``` > >> $ command -v cp > >> alias cp='cp --no-clobber --preserve=links --preserve=timestamps' > >> ``` > >> Which again felt weird - because I am not using `-n` at all. > >> > >> I thought that *precisely* the shorthand was the one that was > >> "non-portable" (for some out-of-my-understanding shorthand-flag > >> reason). > >> > >> Version: `GNU coreutils 9.4, April 2024` > >> > >> With regards, > >> Ntentos Stavros > >> > > > > Can you confirm `cp --version` says 9.4 > > We only deprecated --no-clobber in 9.5. > > Also we don't error, only document > > (and always mention both long and short options in the deprecation docs). > > Ah I see this is an ubuntu patch, > so you'll need to redirect any suggestions there. > (They could drop the deprecation warning as > behavior of -n did not actually change for later > versions in ubuntu). > > cheers, > Padraig
