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From: "Ken Moffat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: cp foo{,.bak} not always supported
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:52:30PM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> > It has been reported on ipcop-devel list that cp foo{,.bak}
contruction is
> > broken on Ubuntu-8.04
> >
> > This was on expect instructions
> >
> > cp configure{,.bak}
> > cp: missing destination file operand after `configure{,.bak}'
> > Try `cp --help' for more information.
> >
...
> >
> Or just require people to use a sane shell ?
>
This was just to inform.
You could require what you desire.
For me, less requirement is better so we will adapt our scripts.
I do not imagine I could make Ubuntu change something just to let IPCop
compile ;-)
Gilles
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